Christian Bale Portrait ( Wip and Complete )

The artwork of Christian Bale is still in progress, its taking such a long time because the amount of details i m drawing on his skin and facial hair, i suck at drawing that argh! Hope you like the progress. I'm still working on his skin textures and facial hair, any suggestions are always welcome!

My suggestion is that you keep on doing what you're doing. It's great.

I'll ask the same question I asked at DA....
Is that your normal way of drawing...diagonal lines?
Pretty interesting...pretty good too.

Anyway, my suggestion would be to draw the big picture first...
lay down all the tonal values and slowly working into the details.
Just imagine working with layers...
use the biggest brush on the first layer
and shifting to smaller brush as you go on to the next layers.
Hope I'm making sense.

I got your point, you applied that technique in your Bruce Willis drawing aswell.

This is second wip of Christian Bale, i'm too lazy to complete it today anyway i m done on his face and facial hair but still it need work on some few edges i guess. Now i,ll complete his hair and cloths soon.

Looks perfect, wow! I look forward to seeing the finished version.

How do you guy's do that? It does look like a photograph.

Medium: Wacom Intuso 3 on Corel Painter

Brushes: 2b pencil and airbrush

Duration: 12 hours