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CHERYL COLE

I saw this image of Cheryl Cole on Google and instantly thought, I need to draw her! It was 2014 and I was still struggling with making Darks Dark, so that was the main reason I picked this image.

There was a point during this drawing where I just said to myself, sod this, it’s time you risk ruining the drawing … and with that, I picked up my 4B pencil and just went nuts with the darkness on her face :) I felt fearless in that moment, but it came at a price, I got so excited I made the paper all rough and it was bit hard to smooth out the tones after that lol

Lots was learnt during this drawing, and I loved doing her outfit. I always used to hate drawing clothes, but lately I’ve started forcing myself to pay more attention to them, and I’ve started enjoying it, they’re just shapes after all. It’s a mental thing, if you think something’s going to be hard to draw it will be, if you think it’s just a bunch of shapes, before you know you’ve drawn the outfit super realistically without even realising it lol

I’VE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM MY MISTAKES
…I’M THINKING OF MAKING SOME MORE

Cheryl Cole