What you can do is try a halftone effect... that'll give the impression of 5-o-clock shadow. For a real beard... hey, get out the brush.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
Alot of the poeple I draw--- Ugghh... well, the guy I draw(I'll have plenty of new people to draw once I start writing my next story) is often shown with a little stubble and/or a goatee... just because...
) hairs on a man's beard than I could ever fit in that little space on the page. I was thinking I could take more of the Fred Flinstone approch and just darken things around there a little. But I usually try to avoid any darkening or shading... at all! I'm trying to go for a nice, bold-lined, very clean, colorful look(yet at the same time, detailed, and as anatomically correct as possible, while at the same time staying with a fun, somewhat exagorated feel... 
).
So, right now I usually just put some little dots on and around his chin and sometimes, if I'm feeling daring, a little on his upper neck. But I'm wondering... Is this the "right" or suggested way to do it? I mean, there's way too many little(maybe I could say "little" a few more times
... Now... I have to say it few more times: little, little, little!