Leonard DiCaprio (690Z) celebrity model pen & ink portrait drawing by artist Stephen Condren as seen on Quora.com.
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Leonard DiCaprio (690Z)
In this drawing of Leonardo DiCaprio I have made my focus on the contour lines because they bring out the full image. When you add more lines to a drawing you make the work a more complex thing. However, if you can express the sense of the image with just a few lines, then you have become the master. When you put a lot of lines on the paper you loose the sense of continuity of the subject, and you busy it all up.
When you are using shade and shadows you need to use hatched lines when working with pen & ink because you cannot draw a range with a pen line. The image of an ink line is very high contrast, and very unforgiving. The moment that you put that ink on the paper you have to be careful. One drop of ink in the eye or other crucial spot can ruin the drawing.
This pen & ink drawing is done on Strathmore paper because it is able to take lighting from scans. In other words, when I finish a drawing, I make a PDF scan of it and the put it on my website. If the paper is not of the highest quality the drawing or image will be too light after you post it too your website. The drawing looks light at the edges rather than sharp like they should. I did not know this until I figured it out by myself. When I had just tested out a new kind of paper I noticed the image was not good. I looked at the paper and it seemed fine. But the paper has too many chemicals in it which make the light of the scan flaw up and cause brightness distortion on the image.
