how i met your mother WIP 4

I think this was one of the fastest faces I've ever drawn! 45 minutes! And I like it.

Ted Mosby (aka Josh Radnor)


General description of the drawing:

I just started a new project. I'm a huge fan of the TV show "how i met your mother" and I love all the characters so the logic step for me was to draw them.

I thought that I hadn't done a "Work in Progress" series in a long time so here we go.

First I had to find a nice reference picture. I wanted to do a drawing of the five of them sitting in their booth at McLaren's. I Found a nice picture online in a pretty good quality ([link]) but I didn't like that you couldn't see Barney and Lilly well in it so I searched for pictures of them individually that I could work into the picture, Barney: [link] and Lilly: [link]
Then I printed them out in the correct size so they would match and so that it's easier to get the proportions right.

As always I started with a sketch of the whole thing. I always have to make sure to get the proportions right because I don't wanna end up having Robin and Barney perfectly right and nicely drawn and then I mess up Lilly and everything is ruined. So when I first do a sketch of all of them I can be pretty sure the drawing will turn out ok in the end. Then I start drawing from left to right, and again I usually draw the heads first and then I fill in the rest; reason: see above.
I will try to upload a WIP whenever I'm done with one person so you can see how the drawing slowly builds. Once I'm done with it, I'll put the WIPs in the scrap folder.

Elapsed time: 10 hours

Material:
3 Reference pictures
Bristol paper (65x50cm)
2b Pencil for sketch
Cretacolor Nero pencil Nr. 1(extrasoft), 2 (soft) and 3 (medium)
tortillions
eraser
pencil eraser