graphite

An afternoon with some pencils

A new character portrait I’ve created. I’ve named her Melaina. Made with pencils, blackwing pencil, water soluble graphite by artgraf and a water soluble graphite crayon by lyra.

getting a background ready for a flour sack animation practice

Graphite 60 minutes sketch

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graphite on paper 18x24 inches

Here I am practicing drawing guys. These are all guys, believe it or not! I sketched Peter from San Domingo, the Medicine Hat Stallion. In the center is Gale from the Hunger Games. This is one of the ways I imagined he looked from the books. And below him is Hart from the Last Holiday Concert. The only guy I drew full-body was the kid on the right side. I didn’t draw him, however, with any specific character in mind, so I guess I just made him up.

This is the first time I have ever tried to draw a realistic eye. I tried to include values and tones, as this was for an assignment.

graphite on paper, 5.5 x 8.5 inches

What if a Symbiote fused with a Zenomorph what would happen?

Not a massive fan of bugs but here’s a green beetle illustration using 2B graphite pencil, black ink and Crayola crayons.

Graphite drawing, first life class back after summer break!

Practicing trees

Don't get too wrapped up in your loved ones problems. Ink and graphite.

Oil pastel and graphite pencil on cardboard

Graphite aquarelle faber-castell

Graphite drawing of Ruth Ellis. She was the last woman in Britain to be hanged, in the 1950s. British justice was no where near as sophisticated then, as it is now. I am convinced that the overwhelming mitigating circumstances would have saved her life. Her confession was never examined or questioned. Today she would have received a manslaughter charge at most. Such a tragedy.

Progression 5 of 6. At this point his face is nearly done and I’ve begun to fill in the shirt. There is still more shading and fine tuning and details needed on to finish off his face, but at this point in a drawing I like to begin filling in the other details to keep some cohesion to the overall piece.

Progression 2 of 6. Spent some time here in the hair, beard, and eye. The transition in the hair from light to dark was done mainly by not adding in graphite in heavy amounts and using the pencil eraser to define the hair.

Progression 1 of 6. This first pic is of the line work and the background shading.

Unai Emery. Arsenal Football Club Manager. I think I could have put another hour or so into this and worked the finer details, but overall happy with how it turned out.

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I put this together for Arsene's last home match before he left Arsenal last season. Probably my favorite drawing to-date.

Charcoal And graphite

emulating different styles in sketches to learn how other people do their things

Progression 1 of 5. Found this image and felt it captured the power a beauty of the sport. Also, this piece I did with out any blending or smudging, which is my usual go-to technique.

An earlier drawing from a Mark Crilley how-to. https://youtu.be/yPQV7rwUKrM This might be one of those I try again at a later date.

Progression image 4 of 6. 11x14 Marker paper, Medium Graphite Pencils (asst. B-5B). This is where I felt the piece coming together. I spent a lot of time working on her left eye.