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

Classical Beauty

Classical Beauty by ~ellekazan on deviantART

This is a classical style portrait of my favorite singer Alsou. Always wanted to do this one... well, and many others, but this one this time. Using graphite pencils and sticks and mechanical pencils from 5H to 9B, kneaded eraser and normal eraser on plain paper size A4.

Can’t really say how many hours I've spent on this one so far and how mane more it will take, but I certainly hope it will be less next time.

Lady in a hat

"Lady in a hat"

This is a portrait of my mother when she was younger. Picture that was used for the reference was always my favourite.
Canvas size A3 and done with coal sticks. Took me about a day. Just needs to be preserved and framed. It was really supposed to be for march 8th but I was so busy and didn't make it. But its all done now and the idea was spinning for a long long time.
Work in progress1
Work in progress2