Scribble - Mohawk

Description

The Mohawk belong to the five tribes of the Iroquois.
Their settlement area is located east of Lake Ontario (on the map it is the 'right' border US / Canada).

As so often, the name they use for themselves, is quite different: "Kanien'kehá:ka - people from the land of the Flint"

The portrait shows a painted Indian (the upper head is red and changes to black, down from the eyes).

You should not confuse 'Mohawk' with 'Mohicans'.
The Mohicans are no Iroquois, but they belong to the Algonquin Indians (enemies of the Iroquois).

Info
The image is a compilation / collection of various contents.
So this is not a whole scene, but an hopefully interesting arrangement of the parts.

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Steps

In a scribble drawing my pencil gets a lot of freedom.
The shading is done by ‘wild scribbling’, these are squiggly lines that generate a relatively solid surface impression.
If possible, I do not use hatching.
For a further darkening I use an blue ink pen (on the paper this gives a slight blue tint - here I have converted the image to grayscale)

Hier is a close-up view:

1. Finedrawing with the grid method (without a predrawing)
2. Finedrawing (pencil)
3. Finedrawing (pencil)
4. Finedrawing (pencil)
5. Darkening with a pen

final drawing

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Tools/Material

Paper	normal printer-papier (DIN-A4...A6) normal sketchbook paper (DIN-A3)
Pencil HB	for pre drawing, fine lines, area-darkening and graphite-powder
Eraser	(2 x 2 x 0.6 cm) for area-lightening
Eraser	(small - at the end of a pencil) to smear graphite-powder
Sandpaper	to produce graphite-powder with the HB-pencil
Paper handkerchief	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (wide areas)
Finger	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (middle areas)
Pen with bicycle tube	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (small areas)
Cardboard	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (tiny areas)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 30mm)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 2mm)
Extra papers	to protect areas