Profile

This is a portrait I did in charcoal this weekend.  Portraits are fun to attempt.  Tiny changes in the drawing make a huge difference in facial expression and in whether the person is even recognizable.

Profile, charcoal 18x24"

Hijab on the Wall

I wanted to continue to study drapery, so I hung one of my hijabs up on the wall.  After doing about half of it in detail, I got distracted with another drawing so one side is more finished than the other.  I learned a lot from my attempt to draw sheer fabric, specially about my own need for patience!
 


Hijab on the wall, charcoal 18x24"

Portrait of a Woman

Here is a portrait I did in my drawing class this spring.  I am already looking forward to starting again in the fall with new classes!  

Portrait of a woman, charcoal

Sight

I am continuing to experiment with using elements of the style of other artists.  In this case, the realism and smoothness of the textures that Ira Korman uses in this drawings.  I wasn't particularly successful imitating his style, but I learned a few things in the attempt.



Sight, charcoal

Coffee and Ginger

I finally completed the drawing I had been working on for the last few weeks.



Coffee and Ginger, pencil 22x30"

Woman With Bow In Her Hair

This is a charcoal drawing I did this weekend.  The model was much prettier than what I managed to capture here, but live drawing is wonderful practice and a lot of fun!

Bow in her hair

Details in Progress

As a final project for my drawing class, we are supposed to create a drawing inspired by an artist of our choice from a list of figurative artists.  I picked Ivan Albright who did incredibly detailed work where background, middleground, and foreground are all rendered in amazing detail and the wrinkles of skin are exaggerated. His most famous painting is The Picture of Dorian Gray. 

So I am now working on a time consuming 22x30" pencil drawing with much more detail than I have previously attempted.  Here is a corner of the drawing in progress.



Detail in pencil