Portrait drawing demo by Zimou Tan

[CiliosX]

what paper are you working on?

[yoyinpiyin]

I got stunned... it is really amazing the way you can capture the escence of what you are drawing from the firsts few traces. I hope I could get to understand light and shadow this manner. This is pure art, and i love it.

Grettings from Chile

[imshingo]

@yoyinpiyin It is just matter of practice and understand the basic concepts, I believes many people could do this when they have put in enough time for the subject.

[leafsoul4gone]

is this for a class or just for workshop fun?



[imshingo]

@leafsoul4gone This is part of a book project I have been working on.

[sibalnom]

you should have uploaded the model to compare the likeness

[imshingo]

@sibalnom That's how the model looks like.

[deeknits]

wow...beautiful work!!!

[imshingo]

@deeknits Thank you!

[maanasking]

sir, this is awesoome !!

[imshingo]

@maanasking Thank you!

[MwKVortex]

how you got those miniscule details, like the razor bumps, with the lighting is beyond me. I'm just hopeing you're a teacher at some school and I get lucky enough to have you XD.

[imshingo]

@MwKVortex I do teaches private workshops, and at the art university.

[zw0ecool]

haha this was badass the dude wrecked it....he was tweaking the hell out of that drawing

[imshingo]

@zw0ecool Just doing what I can, anyone can do it, with lots of practices.

[InnovationalFilms]

love the painterly, smudgy, textury style!

[dashfry]

this is superb....the approach, the attitude are mind blowing. GREAT work

[imshingo]

@dashfry Thank you, feels good to know other people like this demo.

[Svetovidijak]

How long did it take time for drawing?

[imshingo]

@Svetovidijak

It was less then 2 hours.

[sikkco]

@imshingo LESS THEN 2 HOURS my portraits take 2 hours or more and don't come out anywhere near as good

[imshingo]

@sikkco All I can say is, behind each stroke took years to find the solution to complete the drawing, keep drawing, anyone can do it, as long as you keep on at it.

[imshingo]

I got the music from youtube, since I can't use the one I like, because of copyright issue. 

[robertbozarth]

beautiful work. what is the music on the video?

[imshingo]

@robertbozarth

The music was given by Youtube, since there might be copy right issue, they have provided some choices for the video.

[tdartista48]

Amazing portrait work.

[imshingo]

@tdartista48

Thank you, glad you enjoy it. :)

[robertbozarth]

beautiful work with beautiful music. what is the music?

[bentleysportraits]

very very good!

[franquesadamata]

Great drawing of portait!

[ChadSmith1452]

Superbly executed.

What kind of paper are you using?

[imshingo]

@ChadSmith1452

The medium weight Strathmore drawing paper.

[imshingo]

@ChadSmith1452

Thank you.

The medium weight Strathmore drawing paper.

[ChadSmith1452]

@imshingo

Ah. The reason I was curious is that I would think it would be difficult to heep the charcoal from smearing excessively on that "vellum" surface paper.

I've considered doing portraits like this in a public place for a little extra cash, but something tells me most customers wouldn't sit sufficiently still for twenty-five minutes, which would drive me crazy.

[MrDaniel800]

I want to study drawing with you....

[imshingo]

Thank you for your interest, as now I am teaching at the AAU, in San Francisco, perhaps I will teach private art classes in the future in my own studio.

[imshingo]

@MrDaniel800 You can attend my workshops for portrait drawing, and painting.

[youngstarrzzz]

ure using charcoal right?whats the difference between charcoal and pencil?im a tattoo artist and im interested in practticing portrait art....but i dont manage to do nothing.....a little tip someone?

[imshingo]

Yes, I was only using willow charcoal on this drawing. Charcoal stick can provide you smooth surface, and easier to cover the big area, allows you to work faster if you know how to control the medium. Charcoal pencil can define more small details, also can give you more solid dark tones for the darkest dark area. Hope this would help.

[mlo1designs]

Great work! I draw pencil portraits but am having no luck speeding up videos of me doing this. Do you edit your videos yourself? any advice would be appreciated.

[imshingo]

The video was captured with time lapse, it was a close to two hours drawing, this is the better way to show different stages from beginning to finish.

[goodeye2007]

Such tension! The drum beats and crescendos forewarn me that the drawing figure is about to come out of the page and bite off my fingers!

[imshingo]

Thank you for your comment, I am glad you like it.

[wateraqua5]

you should make more :D

[imshingo]

Maybe... :D

[wateraqua5]

Sang hehe

[imshingo]

Hello guys, thank you for checking out my demo.

[Avatarpwnz]

Hi Z, this is jon, awesome video!

[imshingo]

Hi Jon, nice for you to drop by and check out my demo, and glad you like it.

[imshingo]

Hi wateraqua5, who is this?

[wateraqua5]

haha hi Z!