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Realistic children Start Art 5 19 www.painters-online.co.uk Extract abridged from Secrets to Drawing Realistic Children by Carrie Stuart and Rick Parks, North Light Books, distributed in the UK by David & Charles. To purchase online go to www.davidand charles.co.uk/artp romo.asp and enter code AO298 for a £2 discount 4 Shade lightly Lightly shade Shilo’s face and clothing. On the original photo, there’s a large dark area next to her face. Wait to smudge it later. If you were to work on this larger area, making it dark, you would have the potential of accidentally dragging some of the dark graphite into an area you want lighter. The drawing has a large range of values in it because of the darks in her hair. You want to have some lights, midtones and darks throughout the sketch 5 Work on the entire face Shilo’s face is taking form in an overall manner—that is, one facial feature is never completely finished before another 6 Draw the hands The lights and darks on the hands add dimension and make them believable. Hands should be no more difficult than faces. Use the same light-dark-light-dark pattern you've employed to create faces and fabric 7 Keep going! Once you have darks, midtones and lights, you’ll want to look at each part of the drawing to be sure it’s correctly shaded. I often look at smaller details with a magnifying glass Shilo Stuart, graphite pencil on smooth bristol board 12 14 1 ⁄ 2 in. (30 37cm).