Pencil Test

This eye turned out nicely. I observed how artist Diego Fernandez does his eyes, and with the new brushes I reconfigured, tried to include some of his techniques into my own style. This new brush does look like a soft pencil shade... and aside from stealing Diego's highlight style rendering in the pupil, this eye was just drawn from memory, so pretty happy with it.

Why am I testing pencil brushes in Photoshop? For the possible commission, I'm thinking of aping a Stavrinos graphite rendering, so I googled up Photoshop pencil brushes and started experimenting with a few. So far it looks promising, but I'll have to test them out more.