Drawing Realism Pt.2 Shading

Okay now comes the fun part shading the pic. First you want to lay down a base shade. To do this you lightly shade in the lightest color on that certain part. Don't worry about filling in every knook and cranny you just want ot mainly focus on shading evenly. After that you want to get rid of all the individual pencil lines and even out the shade. To do this you want use a shade stick or what I prefer to use is either toilet paper or tissue paper. When you finish you should have something similar to pic 1.

Then by useing your pencil, eraser, and blending tool you want to start adding shadows and dark tones to the picture. The shadows are going to give the effect of muscle tone, light angle, and even hair direction. The amount of layers that your going to have to add vary on the pic and the detail of the picture, this pic only required 3 layers including the base layer.

Finally when have the shading to your satisfaction you can start on the background by applying the same techniques.

Hope this helps someone and I'd like to thank Wandering_Spirit for letting me use the request I did for him for this tutorial. You can see the final product here:

http://www.fanart-central.net/pictures.php?pid=323730