Look at this old pencil portrait drawing I did many years ago...

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1575" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nirma.jpg" alt="nirma" width="318" height="431" />What can you learn from it? Can just looking at a pencil drawing done by another artist teach you how to draw in pencil?

Well, maybe not all by itself, but it can certainly help. You can easily use a pencil drawing done by someone else as a model for how to create your own work.

Better yet, the closer you examine the work, the more you may realize certain strengths over the work of the artist you are viewing.

So even though you do not see a step-by-step tutorial on this page for how this portrait was created, take a look at some of the characteristics it possesses to see if your pencil portrait drawings share similar traits.

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