Step-by-Step drawing of Rick Grimes

 First what I did was I chose a picture, I chose the season 4 promo picture of Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead, then i made an outline on sketch paper and started to color the hair, I used a 3b for the darker parts in the hair and a 2h for the base shape of the hair. I randomly started drawing the eyes. I used a 3b and 6b because darker eyes make the drawing look better in the end at least that's my opinion. ;p I added the wrinkles beside ricks eyes.  In my opinion, if you want anything in the drawing to look good it should be the eyes, you can always tell who someone is by the eyes.

 I finished shading the eyes and the eyebrows and made sure that the creases were prominent.
I started to shade the darker shadowed side of his face. I zoomed up on his face on the picture on my ipod and made sure to pay very close attention to detail, I sharpened the H pencil and made it look more realistic. Paying close attention to shading helps in the long run, it takes time but its worth it. 

 I then started working on Rick's facial hair which was a lot of work ;p make sure you spend a lot of time on the facial hair, it gets boring but using defined strokes really makes the drawing look realistic

 I finished his beard and made sure to add the dark and light strands. i used a 2H and a 6B and 3B for this. i also finished his mouth I worked on it a bit later after i took this progress picture.

 I shaded the clothing and the gun although I could have done a better job on it, I had trouble with the gun since it was not focused in the picture that I used I used a 6b and a pencil smudger on this part of the picture.

I finished the drawing and added any little effects that I missed and put on my signature, this drawing took around 8 hours.