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

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.

Alsou WIP3

Alsou WIP3

Found an old picture of Alsou in FHM (summer 2001) and decided to draw it. Size A4, plain paper.
Slowly moving on. Face and lower area are sort of done. Still thinking of a background, but maybe there's no need to make one. It will make the drawing heavy, but I was thinking of a lighter look.
Work in progress1
Work in progress2