How to Draw Shane, Shane from The Walking Dead, Jon Bernthal

Artist: catlucker / December 26, 2012
How to Draw Shane, Shane from The Walking Dead, Jon Bernthal

Step 1.


Draw the oval lightly with a No.2 or HB pencil. Make sure you draw it as seen in the picture.

Step 2.


Now draw in the bisecting red line to balance his facial features.

Step 3.


Sketch lightly the crescent red lines for hair line and head mass.

Step 4.


You can draw in the lines a. for eyebrows, b. for eyes, c. for nose, d. for mouth, and e. for shoulder placement.

Step 5.


Now draw in Shane's eyes, eyebrows, and wrinkles.

Step 6.


Observe where Shane's features appear in relation to the guidelines. Draw in his nose, cheek shadow line, profile line near the side of his mouth, and mouth.

Step 7.


Watch closely how Shane's jawline, chin, ears, and neck relate to the guidelines. Make sure you add his facial hair. As you draw, you will have more accuracy.

Step 8.


When you sketch his hair, add those straight lines and curls. Try staying close to the lines that represent the direction of his hair. This will help if you decide to shade it in.

Step 9.


Now draw in his neck, collar, and shoulder. If you haven't already, you can erase your guidelines.

Step 10.


I made this line drawing especially for you. If you want you can either color it in or shade it. Next step has different types of pencils you can use.

Step 11.


I didn't want to skip this. The first picture shows how to hold your pencil for Overhand (great for writing & details) and Underhand (great for shading large areas in wide strokes). You can practice tone shading and take it a step further with the To   

Step 12.


Here is how the tools look. I used the 0.7mm 2B mechanical pencil, 9B pencil, tissue, and the blending stump.

Step 13.


In a few strokes I've got area coverage. Applied medium gray to dark gray and black to his hair. From light to medium gray was added to his face, neck and T-shirt. You can tell dark gray and black was added to his eyebrows and facial hair. I took my    

Step 14.


I darkened in his eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, hair, lips, face shadows, and T-shirt with my 9B graphite pencil and dark gray pastels. I also added lighter hair strands with a light gray pastel stick. Then I blended with my blending stump to give a smo   

Step 15.


Without highlights, your picture would have a flat appearance. Click on this picture to learn how to make your own picture POP out!

Step 16.


Click on this picture to see how Tone, Shading, Texture, and Reflective Light affects Jon Bernthal who brilliantly played Shane Walsh! I am closing out now. But you all have been wonderful and it has been a great pleasure to do this tutorial with you   

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Artist: catlucker
Date Added: December 26, 2012
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Description: We have shading in this tutorial of Shane Walsh (played brilliantly by Jon Bernthal). Shane, a deputy partner and best friend of Rick Grimes, believed Rick to be dead when the Zombies took over. After protecting Rick's wife and having an affair with her, Rick shows up. Lori dumps Shane returns to Rick and from then on Shane battles for Rick's family. Status: Dead. Killed by Rick, Shane becomes a Zombie and then is killed by Carl (Rick's young son). Let me know what you think of this tut by commenting, faving or clicking on "Love It"! Peace n love to ya

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