Upward Gaze – Intermediate Colored Pencil Portrait Study | Digital Download

When the gaze lifts upward, everything changes. Light falls differently across the planes of the face, warm reflected light catches beneath the chin, and the relationship between highlight and shadow becomes something to be carefully read and rendered. This is a technically demanding and deeply rewarding portrait study in directional light and controlled value.

This intermediate colored pencil study develops your skills in:

• Upward gaze and foreshortening — understanding how the angles of the eyes, nose, and chin shift when the face tilts upward
• Light-to-shadow transitions — building smooth, controlled gradations across the cheek, jaw, and forehead in directional light
• Warm reflected light — rendering the subtle warm glow of reflected light beneath the chin and along the shadow edge
• Temperature separation — distinguishing between the cool key light and the warm shadow mass with colour temperature control
• Edge control and surface sheen — managing soft and hard edges around the lips and eyelids without over-blending

What’s included:

• 🎨 Color Reference Only — full-color reference image
• ✏️ Line Art Only — clean line drawing to trace or transfer
• 📦 Complete Bundle — both files together, best value

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