Peaceful Reflection

Peaceful Reflection by ~ellekazan on deviantART

It is finally done done done!!! I am so happy! I've been doin this piece for over a month (from oct17 till nov22) The last thing I did was the shading of the face and background. And small details here and there.

Graphite pencils and sticks and mechanical pencils from 5H to 9B, kneaded eraser and normal eraser on plain paper size A4.

Work in progress and all the datailed explanations here

Tenderness WIP3

Tenderness WIP3

I had this piece of paper for a long time now and a while ago I decided to draw something simple and relaxed, without too detailed approach. First pencil outlines and the the darkest parts... At first I used different pencils - 2H to 8B and even tried out that 9B (that turned out to be too oily to work with my other graphites) Then I just took one pencil I had, about 7B (don’t really know) and just started drawing the ear and face. Just one grade on the whole piece.
29×42 cm or 11×16 in vellum paper, graphite pencils and sticks, kneaded eraser, tissues.

WIP1 and WIP2

Actress

"Actress"

I started this one after I finished "Black Pearl". Only this time I did the outlines with pencil and eraser first. Then I did the darkest parts with coal. After I took big brush and coal powder and started covering the background.

I removed the coal with kneaded eraser to create the pattern for the background. Smallest details were done with black pencil and very well sharpened coal stick(old ones I have)

29×42 cm or 11,7×16,5 in white structured paper, coal, kneaded eraser, coal powder and brush for the background, tissues. WIP1 and WIP2