Speed Draw: Shading Hair & Lips in Graphite

Here’s a Zoom recording of me shading the hair and lips on a 3/4 view female portrait using graphite pencil. Whether you're looking for relaxation or drawing tips, I hope you enjoy watching the process!

I typically use a 2B graphite pencil for shading portraits, and in this one, I was working with a Tombow Mono.

Hello from lockdown COVID 19!

Love you guys, hope you're safe and stay tuned for lots of new offerings coming your way!

Please check out my website (it will be refreshed in the next day or two- by April 6, 2020) with a completely NEW set of videos never released anywhere else for you to keep studying with me! I hope it will give those of you stuck at home something to look forward to and it will totally help me out too, since I've lost 40% of my in-person students with this virus taking over our world. Stay safe!

Hi all! A short update from my working studio (instead of my filming space you normally see)! This is how my working days usually go- little to no makeup, bad lighting and lots of drawings (see my stack of drawers for drawings back there?). Soon I'll share a tour of my actual working studio space, too. I wanted to let you know what is up for my channel in 2020 and I hope you all have a great start to your new year.

Y'all. 2020 has kicked my behind. Please be nice even though I'm cutting my own hair- hahaha! Hope you're doing as well as you can be out there. Sending love and lots of drawing tutorials!

More about Laurie and LZM Studio, and why you'd want to learn to draw with me!