FULL Portrait Demonstration - TONS of Tips!✏️Trying the Strathmore Toned-Gray Sketchbook

This video shows my shading process pretty well, so I hope it's helpful! Materials list and link to ref image can be found below! :) Check out my Skillshare classes for more portrait drawing learning!
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► Materials:
Strathmore Toned-Gray Sketchbook 9x12: amzn.to/2LCnTzJ
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Prismacolor Verithin white colour pencil: amzn.to/2XQInXM
Blending Stick (from local art store)
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Regular Eraser
My Printer:
- Canon Pixma Pro 100: amzn.to/2BZpGYw
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- iPhone 8 256 GB
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[@divinesolstice3744]

I noticed that you did this portrait as if you're sculpting it from a block of clay. Shows an amazing ability to measure and use shapes. I need more construction lines for mine so i only feel comfortable using the Loomis Method, but I would like to measure like you. I did the 100 heads challenge back in October and found that i really enjoyed drawing old men. Their faces have so many lines and so much character. :)

[@madeleineeig4178]

where do you get your references from?

[@artisttaskin2277]

@@madeleineeig4178 those are available on pintress.

[@nouveau8073]

Ohmygosh I was literally just watching your older vids earlier for inspiration and then you upload a new one aaaaaa

[@samberger3346]

For a smoother texture, Michaels and other craft stores often have cardstock packs of various shades of grey, brown and other such colours too, cheap and good for sketching on since they're smooth :)

[@niceone7199]

I just love how thorougly you explain your process and thoughts, all the way down to materials. This is really helpful!

[@bibss9337]

Lately I have been struggling with portraits a lot and your technique and the way you explained your process helped me more than a professional explanation I listened to. Your way of drawing just really opened a new wavelength to the way I draw, so thank you!

[@grass9344]

Aw that “Hi everyone!” At the beginning of the video makes me so pumped :D

[@aldheniserrato6405]

Thank you very much for this video. I was just feeling blocked and even overwhelmed yesterday that I was drawing and nothing was coming out right. Your video comes to me like a glass of water in the desert.

[@madamoiselle.reverie]

Your drawings are beautiful. Thank you for featuring strathmore. I will start earning to buy that sketchbook. I heard a lot of positive reviews about strathmore papers. The toned tan is perfect for pencil drawings and toned gray for graphite and charcoal.

[@SugaKookieMon]

I love skillshare and I've taken your courses. I like the idea of separate features, but a final course on how to tie them all together would be nice, especially for OC design.

[@user-hr9ct8jf4e]

Please please please make a class about watercolours! 🙏🙏🙏😭 Your works in this media are just splendid 🧡 (as are all of your works, though)

[@artkhera6341]

This is super useful, especially since I am currently doing the 100 heads challenge. Thank you for sharing :)

[@SarasStudio]

Ahhh SO excited to watch! I recently got a toned TAN sketchbook$

[@ChrisHongArt]

nice, have fun with it! :D

[@glaciie]

So excited for this!

[@virginiafleming8866]

So relaxing and beautiful work

[@aseel1587]

You're so underrated

[@veronica-uj9qw]

thank you chris!!! can't wait to eat this up

[@ecesengun6992]

Love your style! All your art works are just amazing!!

[@lizalmicnizal3450]

YAY you uploaded! This made my day thank you!!!

[@honeyblue1438]

Yesssssss!!! Watching you is so calming. I’m your fan!!!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@friedsushi_]

Just what i needed rn.. Thank you ♡♡

[@aaliyahjames8115]

you’re so talented it’s unreal😭

[@tapendrashahi2097]

Please do more of these. This really helps me.

[@mariliarodrigues7137]

Such a delight to watch you drawing.. and relaxing too!

[@YenDraws]

Beautiful piece and I always wanted to try their grey or tan toned papers

[@tee4498]

You are, by far, my favourite teacher! ❤️

[@emiliohawks781]

Thank you very much, this video was very useful to me.

[@analia225]

🥰😍 I always enjoy your videos. Love your work.

[@froggang_allert9370]

I love your art so much:D Oh my gosh thank you so much Chris 🤩🙈 I’m such a big fan!

[@ohtartarsauce6301]

Love how you do the values. You dive right in with the darker shapes, it encourages me to do the same!

[@illustratiesvanmeij]

I love this! Looking good!!

[@adrianaleiva6288]

Lovee this video! It turned out great! Love the idea for the separate features. Specially the eyes and mouths 💕

[@allyqxx]

Really beutiful and hard work. You is a amazing artist😊.

[@malavikaravi5893]

Thank you for this video . I was watching your videos that u posted years ago to understand how you draw . I am trying to drawing faces and I am a beginner. So once again thank you 😄 for inspiring me

[@talirenbalongchar2703]

Very much helpful...🙌

[@elymage]

I really liked your video! It's like having access to your thoughts when you draw! I am following now your lessons on Skillshare and I have to say that you have changed my life! I’m learning so much! Thank you so so so much!! I love your personality and your arts a lot of course!!!! 😍❤️

[@joycefoster8016]

Very helpful! Thank you

[@donglords69]

Chris! You are such a great teacher, I learned a lot from this video even though you weren't intending it to be a formal lecture. :)

[@emmettolson3499]

I used to use a white prismacolor but I switched to a white charcoal pencil and it’s a complete game changer. It’s much easier to blend, that way you don’t have any marks showing in case you use too much pressure

[@mathieuvart]

yes I prefer that too or a white pastel pencil.

[@rosezif]

Yieiiiiiii more skillshare classes this year please!!! 🥰🥰🥰 I've finally subscribed and I am taking your first course, hope you can make more 😍😍😍 noses sounds good 💖💖💖

[@erictaunton2183]

Chris I really enjoyed watching your video very nice thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

[@wormholeinteractive]

You are amazing! I am currently enrolled in your portrait class and what a difference! I just wish I had someone like you back in art School, I would have felt more confident to follow a career in art. Thank you!!!!

[@RicaPoko]

Yay more classes for 2021!! And I think the nose is a great starting point. I found it the hardest to draw out of the entire face followed by the lips. Looking forward to more classes 😊

[@emilylaughs]

thank you for this video!! please keep uploading i look forward to your videos so much. these relaxed full sketches are my favorite they’re so calming and i love putting them on while i sketch too 💗

[@ChrisHongArt]

i'm so happy to hear you enjoy these types of videos! thanks for watching :)

[@zaruzoba]

I had a fun time sketching with you hihi ;D

[@salmahatem1998]

I do love you and your gorgeous art style💙😙

[@drawwithyoung1760]

I want to get to this level of talent 🤩

[@hilaryhamilton240]

I tried drawing the outside first - brilliant idea. Everything ‘fitted’ in the correct place - I always placed the eyes, nose and mouth first - never again - many 🙏🏼

[@HimanArtists]

Beautiful

[@chordata1]

Always love your vids, thanks for sharing. Been following for some time now and you really have become much more comfortable on cam. Eagerly awaiting ur next gem 💎

[@ChrisHongArt]

I think i still have a long long way to go to be fully comfortable X'D but thank you so much!! for checking in still :)

[@cansam2905]

I just go into toned Canson mi-teintes and I love starting from the mid value.

[@anne-marie.b]

I started to use more the same toned-gray sketchbook as yours, last summer, and it is very great after using it for a couple of drawings and sketches (because it is different than other papers for the color and the texture, need a little adaptation). The result with colored pencils on it is very interesting and satisfying for me, maybe you should try to draw something with this medium in your toned-gray sketchbook ! Also, I watch your videos when I need some inspiration (or motivation sometimes...) for my art, and my illustrations are better since I discovered your KZbin chanel in April 2020, I learned so much by just watching your process, thank you so much ! :)

[@mrsreneecooper]

Hello, I absolutely love your work. I was hoping ypu could do more watercolor work. I love see you watercolor videos, they are so informative. Thank you❤

[@yourlocalfatshionista]

I hope you put a new video up soon! I just found you and am binging, but I am running out of videos!!!

[@ooto7832]

Yay!! Hii Chris :)

[@carolinas.a2822]

Im so early you don't even know Chris

[@froggang_allert9370]

Same

[@shegimmienerd]

i hope to draw as good as u one day c:

[@ilivedinamericaforfouryear5165]

i’m latee but love this 💞

[@tarekshalapy8410]

good job 👏

[@Beth-sz3hl]

I'm glad to see you uploaded again, I've missed your videos. They're so calming. I hope you're doing okay!

[@ChrisHongArt]

aw i'm doing well, thank you! I feel like I haven't been gone that long XD though my pace is definitely slower than some other art youtubers i suppose!

[@Beth-sz3hl]

@@ChrisHongArt Everyday feels long during lockdown in the UK xD I love your quality over quantity mindset for video's thought!

[@uncleatelier8495]

Wow, that's amazing. Have a nice day~~♡★☆♡♥♥

[@perlaescent]

I agree that the toned sketchbook is better for more rendered stuff. I like to use it to practice my shading values with graphite, charcoal, copic. or some small color pencil drawings :] I have a separate cream-colored/white page sketchbook for my regular sketches!

[@blue_droid]

Loved this video! :) Regarding what we would like to see first in your new skillshare tutorials, I personally choose eyes without even having to think about it. I've been drawing skulls and muscle-bone faces for days and days just so I could get to FIT the eyes where they belong, but they always look as floating, or just glued in the face T_T I can't seem to make them part of the face, blend with it, and I don't have any idea at this point of what is exactly where I'm failing so hard at. So I'll be definitely jumping into your eyes tutorial when you release it :)

[@moonfruito5960]

i'm literally so speedy i am so fast

[@ocean_eyes_6994]

Wanna be friends and do a art competition

[@dorothy6838]

Hello, I really like your videos❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Colaris99]

Love the way you give your faces shiney, little noses. :)

[@wes9000]

hey chris, do you plan to make moke skillshare classes? if so can you teach us how is your process while using gouache?

[@ChrisHongArt]

I do! I feel like I haven't touched gouache in a while.. so not sure if I feel like I'm an expert at it at this time XD maybe in the future? :)

[@JohnWolffPortraits]

Really glad I ‘stumbled’ onto your page! Watching the sketch develop gets me ‘pumped’ for the day. I do like the texture of that paper...the artist’s hand becomes obvious in the rendering. Regarding the changing light...it seems to go from cool to warm and brighter to darker....Is your light the same throughout the entire room? Is the paper lit from both sides? I feel the iPhone tends to place a coolish tone over all the photos and videos needing a little color correction later on. Anyway, my 2 cents....Thanks for posting this drawing!

[@someoneluvu2985]

Ur art style is so good can u do something like tutorial plezz

[@blackcatart8881]

[@mmsaint4283]

Wow

[@teaslovesowls1483]

I really enjoy these videos and I wonder how long it takes you to do each portrait.

[@ChrisHongArt]

When I do them off camera and not recording for youtube, these portraits at this level of finish take anywhere from 20~40 mins I would say. On camera it takes much longer since I'm taking longer to try to explain my thought process :)

[@rose-gv7st]

Ghawdd im earlllyyy ahhh

[@popesuavecitoxii2379]

I find better results by erasing a little bit from the area first and then add white pencil. Also use a brand with high pigment like polychromos, Blick brand, Caran d'ache, Derwent coulorsoft, etc. I find prismacolor white pencils to be weak in comparison to those brands.

[@tyson.5075]

i was just watching ur portrait videos for inspo lol

[@MissAdoptaCat]

Just getting caught up on videos...but yes, please....a Skillshare class on how you render your noses 👃!!

[@geckonia]

I really appreciate you showing your method on this paper. Have you tried locking the focus and exposure on your iPhone? Just long press on the screen and it’ll lock it.

[@ChrisHongArt]

I do lock it but I find for me it hardly makes a difference 😭 the exposure just bounces around like crazy regardless. I think it's a combination of the subtle changes in the light and my hand going in and out of the frame :/

[@geckonia]

@@ChrisHongArt well shoot.... too many variables I guess.. definitely time for a new phone then! 😄

[@pinkcapri]

Can we get more videos like this?

[@feshgogulululu]

ANYONE ELSE THINKS CHRIS SHOULD TRY ALCOHOL MARKERS?? I WOULD LOVE TO

[@honeyblue1438]

Can you do a tutorial on how to draw hair, straight, curly, wavy, short or long hair.

[@caileanparis9998]

Lovely video, The top right portrait of the dark skinned woman is absolutely gorgeous, did you happen to record that drawing?? would love to see that one. Also, have you already or do you plan on making videos on figure drawing? I really love how you draw the body in your character sketches. My figure/character drawings feel so stiff because Ive gotten used to doing accurate academic/realistic studies, so I could use some help with getting out of that mindset with figures. Thanks so much, I love your channel and art pieces you make. Keep up the good work.

[@ChrisHongArt]

unfortunately i didn't record the drawings at the top since I was just testing the paper out, which is a shame because I like how they turned out XD And I'm personally not the MOST confident figure draw-er, but for me I think what helped a lot was doing a ton of quick gesture drawings from real life models. Since that's not easily accessible right now I highly suggest concentrating on quick pose studies from reference! It really forces you to draw differently from doing the longer, academic studies of the figure, and makes you concentrate on portraying the rhythms of the body in a more simplified way :) I'm sure there are tons of great tips on KZbin on gesture drawing. Good luck, and thanks so much for your comment!

[@caileanparis9998]

@@ChrisHongArt thank you

[@tinaaa2240]

Do you draw straight from a table or do you place your sketchbook on some kind of clipboard or drawing board? Thanks for the video, very helpfull tips!

[@ChrisHongArt]

I just place my sketchbook directly on my desk. Long ago I had a drafting table and I found it nice to draw on an angle :) thanks for watching!

[@monadannenberg7710]

Thank you so much for your awesome drawing videos, which are a great help and inspiration. I sent you an amount via Patreon. May I ask, what degree of pencil hardness you use? Is it HB, B or 2B? Thank you and stay safe and happy! Mona from Germany 🌺

[@zahraratubalqis6796]

Hi

[@MTPS]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@user-wr5vi9gr5j]

It can be seen, the forehead is lower and wider, the eyes are more detached. It doesn't look like it at all.

[@jimburns6232]

I like the drawing method that you do but there's always a but under the girls left eye to me it looks like a scar on her face, I don't see it as a shadow and was surprised you were satisfied to leave it like that. 😉👍

[@dimsummomoidkwhattopost6715]

Is it me or did chris hong art syle change 😏

[@ChrisHongArt]

has it? 🤔

[@dimsummomoidkwhattopost6715]

@@ChrisHongArt idk

[@agnescunanan5813]

I'm speed

[@majeddraws5104]

I think you can lock the exposure on your phone, can't you?

[@ChrisHongArt]

I do do that but it doesn't hold the exposure even though I lock it, it changes wildly regardless 😭

[@majeddraws5104]

@@ChrisHongArt hmmm, are you using a 3rd party app? may that is better and more consistent than the original camera app?

[@bro-ss2eu]

First

[@sentry8992]

A white chalk pencil goes over graphite better than colored pencil.

[@Lilasun]

Hey, thank you for this video. I've been drawing along with you! In regards to the camera problem: Im not a photographer, I just have a little experience an some photographer friends: I think maybe the light always adjusting can be fixed by turning off an automatice adjusment setting (I'm not sure specifically which one or what it would be called) because when your hand enters the frame, the skin is reflecting a lot of light so the camera settings adjust, then when your hand goes back out of the frame it has to re-adjusts to the paper... I feel like there's a way to lock the "brightness" settings with the camera focussed on the paper for the whole video..... It can be done on an i-phone by holding down the brightness adjustment things that comes up.. Ok, sorry the length of that, I hope it makes some sense and possible helps! Much love x

[@Lilasun]

P.s, white charcoal is also awesome for this technique!

[@craftygeekent4620]

It looks like you draw really small... like me. :)

[@sheveja.2527]

Beautiful but eyes are too big

[@danielmovilla1]

why the clown nose?

[@juliaschindel8968]

Great video! However, as a musician the repetitive background music is debilitating and stops me being able to concentrate on your content. Such a shame.

[@q-tiptingz7197]

Hey Chris ik this is way off topic but what pronouns do you use? Like I wanna be respectful if show someone your art and use the right pronouns. Also btw it turned out lovely and thank you for the tips!

[@ChrisHongArt]

she/her :) my pleasure, thanks for watching!