[Totally]

been doing these for the past couple of weeks in my Portrait Drawing class. These are a select few of them, in order of oldest to newest.


October 7 - 20 minutes - conte crayon on newsprint


October 9 - 40 minutes - charcoal pencil on newsprint


October 14 - >2hours - Mars Lumigraph 8B pencil on white drawing paper


[edit]updated image
October 22 - estimated 4 hours - Mars Lumigraph 8B pencil and white chalk pencil on gray canson
Close Up

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[Elessil]

These look very good to me! Were they done with or without reference?

I especially like the second and the third one, they have a nice mood to them. The last is technically extremely well done but the proportions appear a bit weird (the forehead looks somewhat strange to me)

[Totally]

they were done in portrait drawing class with a fellow student sitting across from me.

The forehead on the last one might appear a little strange because of the strands of hair laying across her forehead... they might be creating a strange tangent.. I should move those.

[ October 22, 2002: Message edited by: Totally ]

[Totally]

I updated the last portrait... moved those strands of hair on the right (her left) that were probably causing the irregular looking forehead.

old version
work-in-progress version

[Bare Bonez]

Truely well done. Your work is very well polished. Good job, hope you get top grade marks in your class 'cause you deserve it.

[Totally]

thanks for the comments you two...

before I let this sink into the bottomless pit of this forum, are there any other comments or critiques?

[Matthew]

Some really nice stuff there.
I am also using charcoal sticks and I really like the smudge effect.
Do you sketch with pencil before using
charcoal? Because it gets kind of messy
with charcoal when you have to remove
some missed lines.

good stuff
take it easy
Matthew alias Lensflares

[Totally]

actually, only the second one is done in charcoal

the first one is done in black conte crayon, the second in charcoal pencil, and the third and forth I used a Mars Lumigraph 8B pencil, which is not a normal graphite pencil. It draws very dark and very soft with none of the glossy shine a regular soft lead graphite pencil has. It's much more controlled than charcoal (it doesn't smudge like charcoal does) but it gets a nice black.

I render all of my drawings with hatching lines, as opposed to blending. To each his own, though... it's really just a personal preference.

as for the underdrawing, for all of these I used vine charcoal. I like to use it because it wipes right off, which is nice once I start refining the drawing with another medium (whether it be a conte crayon or a pencil).

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: Totally ]