Charcoal and Pencil Portrait Of Young Woman

 I do not attempt to draw something to make it look like a photo but I want my drawings to look like a drawing so I leave some of the creative processes in place and use the pencil strokes to give a rough effect, as you can see here in a little sketch I did while watching tv with my wife.

I hide some paper and pencils in a box under the couch so when I am in the living room I can just pull them out and do a little doodle.

My inspiration was a woman in a magazine. It was just the first one I saw and had no real reason other than keeping busy during my wife's show.

The face at three-quarters with a tilt is one I have a lot of difficulty with so it turned out to be a good choice since I could use the practice.

I started with a light pencil sketch and then went over it with a light charcoal pencil. I use the rubbing stub to blend and then reworked the whole picture again. I had to use a kneaded erasure a bit to keep things clean. I noticed some of my original pencil marks from my beginning sketch was creating an interesting effect of randomness as they crossed some other lines, so instead of eliminating them, I went over them again to deepen the value and left them in. I reworked the entire project again using a darker charcoal pencil and did more cleaning up. I reintroduced some of the pencil effect in the shadow behind the head in the upper left and lower areas.

Sketch while watching TV

It was a fun picture to draw.

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Charcoal Portrait Of Dwain, The Lumber Yard Man

This is a portrait I did for my own pleasure and for practice. It is Dwain who is just a guy who works odd jobs this portrait was inspired by a photo of him on a temporary assignment at a lumber yard.

I liked the dark mood that was in the photo and in his expression. I did not intend for him to look sad but the photo was taken when he was especially tired.

As in all my drawings, I began with a 2b or 4b pencil and then after the basic composition is laid out I move to charcoal or whatever medium I am working in.  I did the first layer in hard charcoal and then did a lot of blending with a blender stub. I wanted to leave the picture a little impressionist or parts of the face to be undeveloped and other parts to be overdeveloped for emphasis, but I got so enthralled with the process that I kept working it and developed a more realistic picture than I intended.

I saw an art student of mine use tissue to buff the medium and soften it which is a nice technique to give a softer texture so I borrowed her method and buffed out the medium in the background and parts of the face.

I finished the portrait with a soft charcoal pencil which is a darker medium. I did the darkest areas being mindful not to overdo it  I was going to leave the hair in the shadows so the face would look like he was just about to emerge from darkness but the softer darker charcoal had such a nice contrast to the buffed layer I had created earlier that I couldn't help but draw in the coarse hair.

Charcoal Portrait of  The Lumber Yard Man. 

I think I am very happy with the project.

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Charcoal And Pencil Portrait Of a Woman Looking Up, A Study for a Painting.

This is a sketch I did as a study of a model who I hope to paint a portrait of some day. Her head is turned up and she is viewed slightly from below which is a very difficult post to capture.

I find her long silky hair to be a subject of interest and want to explore how it can be used in a portrait. Long hair can be symbolic of so many things I hope to do a few paintings of her in different cultural contexts.

The placing of the face is off center a little and normally I would not do that but my photography of her was a little off center and so I took inspiration from the mistake and I felt it worked in this case.

I started with a hb graphite pencil to outline the face then began to work the portrait with a light touch of the pencil. I did a lot of pre-shading of the face. I did a complete drawing in pencil at first but when I photographed it and looked at the image I saw a lot of issues with the values. Sometimes an artists will look at a project in a mirror or upside down to critique their work, but I find taking a photo and looking it on a screen shows me areas that need to be fixed.

I returned to the project and redid it in charcoal. I used a lot of charcoal in the hair, of course, but used a blending stub to pick up charcoal and shaded in the face.

It was a fun picture to draw. After I finished I regretted that it was done on some cheap copier paper since it was intended only as a study but I became so engaged in it that I went beyond a study.

Charcoal and graphite study of a woman looking up for a painting

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Charcoal and Pencil Portrait of Woman Looking Out Of The Corner Of Her Eye.

This is a little sketch I did this past week or ten days. I mostly did it in little bits while here and there. I did it in pencil and then with charcoal pencils. I kept things a little minimal. It was a practice drawing and not good enough for a paying customer.

Charcoal Sketch Of Woman Looking Sideways

I did this work off of a photo. It is hard to do a sketch from photos because so much is washed out by the average flash unless the photographer is very good. I find that I have to add shadows to get depth. I do so much from photos that I am feeling very competent in drawing them.

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Pencil And Charcoal Portrait Of A Young Man Looking Over His Shoulder

This is a drawing of a face in pencil and charcoal. It is a portrait of a young man looking over his shoulder. The lighting in my resource material was very interesting and had strong shadows on the far side of the face.

I liked drawing this because of the opportunity to do a slightly minimalist approach and the complexity of the shadow areas.

Pencil and charcoal sketch of a man looking over his shoulder.

I started drawing with an HB pencil then went to a 2b then 4b.  After using the stub to smooth things out a bit I used light, medium, and dark charcoal pencils.  I didn't use an eraser until the very last for a sort of cleaning up.

It was about an hour and a half and very relaxing. The paper size is 5x9.

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Charcoal Portrait Of The Island Girl

I drew this while on vacation.

Charcoal Portrait of Island Girl

I started the drawing with a pencil and then began to fill it in with a light charcoal pencil after a while I switched to a medium charcoal pencil. I used a blending stub a lot. I did a lot of laying in the charcoal, blending, and then lifting it out before I got it right. There is still a few things about the picture I am not happy with but that is just me.


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Charcoal Sketch of A Young Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder

This is a sketch I did to relax after a long week at work. I drew this in my sketchbook that I carry around with me. The source picture was from a fashon advertisement but I did a lot of editing.

I started with a hb graphite pencil to outline the face then began to work the portrait in a light charcoal. I finished with a medium charcoal. I used a stub a lot in this one to give the effect of full hair. The stub was rubbed all over the white paper beside the profile to tone the paper down so the face would be whiter by contrast.

It was a fun picture to draw.

A Charcoal Portrait of a Young Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder. 

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Charcoal Drawing Of A Young Man With Straight Hair.

This is Chad.  I started this sketch at the dentist office waiting for my kid. I was working from a photo so I was able to finish it later. It was just a doodle I did for a few weeks but gave up because I got bored with the project.

It was drawn in a sketchbook. I used various pencils including charcoal and graphite,

Charcoal Sketch of a young man with straight hair. 

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Quick Charcoal Portrait of a Young Woman

I drew this while my daughter was having a music lesson. It is charcoal in a sketch book. I used a little number 6 graphite pencil to lay it out and then again for detail at the end. I used 2b charcoal pencil, a medium and a soft charcoal pencil.

Young Woman, Quick Sketch in Charcoal 

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Charcoal and Pencil Sketch of a Young Blond Woman

This is a sketch of a young lady named Lily. I sketched it in pencil and worked over it with charcoal and a blending stub and finished with a pencil.  Her photograph had her hair all wavy but I took artistic licence and made it simpler so to give more attention to her lovely face.

Charcoal and pencil sketch of young woman.

The photo didn't capture the subtle graduations of grays. I tired several tricks to get it right. My original sketch is more subtle.

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Charcoal Portrait Of A Young Man

This was a little something I did in my spare time.

Charcoal Portrait of a Young Man

I started this while waiting for my daughter at the dentist, and worked on it later at different times. I was using some pictures I was given to compost it.  The picture that I was using had been taken with a flash and so there were not many shadows for drama.

I started with pencil and then used charcoal and then combined charcoal and pencil together. I used the blending stub a lot and tried to get the shadows to work out. I wanted to do a good job on the face and leave the clothing as minimal for contrast.

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Charcoal Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile

It is somewhat of a cliche picture of the face in profile and the hair creating contrast or negative space but it is a fun subject to draw. This is more of a practice project and not a real effort at anything in particular.

Charcoal sketch of a woman in profile.

It was done in charcoal pencils, I used hard, medium, and soft. I did a little of blending with a stub. 

It is an OK picture. I think I just tired of looking at it in my sketchbook so I thought I would post it and then get on to other projects.

Quick Charcoal Sketch of a Woman At Three AM

This is a sketch I did when I couldn't sleep one night. I drew it around three am. It was a project I wanted to do for some time but haven't gotten around to it for a while so when I couldn't sleep I took my art stuff downstairs and worked on it.

Quick Charcoal Sketch of a Woman

I have been attempting to get away from trying to draw toward the goal of making a picture look extremely realistic, like those guys who draw a picture and it looks like a photo. I want my drawings to look like drawings, so I am not using a lot of blending technique these days.

I started with a light pencil sketch and then progressed to charcoal pencils, going from lighter to darker pencils.

I always leave the hair for the last stages, otherwise, it becomes distracting in the process of creating an expression. I was going to just leave it empty like negative space but started to work it in with a few lines, the few lines became a lot of lines and I thought it looked amateurish so I used a blending stub to smear it all up and then added highlights with a kneaded erasure and darks with a dark charcoal.

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Minimalist Charcoal Portrait of a Woman's Face

This is a drawing I did in a hurry while waiting for someone. It was an attempt to use as little as possible to get the expression and form of the face without going into details that were not essential. I wanted to focus on the expression.

When I first finished it I thought it was too minimalist and looked like parts were incomplete, so I added in the form of the hair to give the face context but I think now that it was too much and I should have left the hair out on the crown of the head and on the left side of the face.

It was done mostly with charcoal and some graphite pencil.

Near Minimalist Charcoal Drawing of a Woman's face

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Charcoal Portrait of Young Man

Josh

This is a portrait drawn in charcoal.  Josh has thick coarse hair, a strong chin and piercing eyes so I wanted to give his face a try. I decided to keep the drawing minimal and to let it look like a drawing. I kept the coarse hair very simple and just tired to have the effect without belaboring it. I did not want to do a lot of blending but felt the pencil marks were too tedious so I did a little more blending than I really wanted to.

Charcoal portrait of Josh.

I arranged the pose as the classic of one shoulder to be high and the other low. I know a forward face is common and boring but I thought it best brought out his features.

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Mike Looks At His Accuser

I called this Mike Looks At His Accuser, because of the expression. My model only served as a point of departure and I used his condescending sneer more than his features or anything else.

I thought the deep narrowly placed eyes were interesting and gave him a distrustful look.

The picture was drawn in charcoal. At first I was going to do a minimal kind of thing but It got more developed than I wanted, but I am happy to have caught the expression.

Mike Looks At His Accuser,  Portrait In Charcoal

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Charcoal And Pencil Portrait Of A Young Man

Whenever I have to wait for my kids at any place I take my bag with sketch stuff and draw something rather than waste the time being impatient.

This is a picture of a young man who was in a photo of a couple of people in a desert or on a beach.   I liked the piercing look he had. The resource material showed a lot of dark shadows and long dark hair but art is editing so I change things to give it a softer quality.

Charcoal portrait of a young man on the beach.

I lightly drew this in 2b pencil and then went over it with a hard charcoal pencil. I added a little more with the 2 b pencil and then went to a medium charcoal. I did a very little blending with a stub since I wanted it to retain a quality of a drawing. I finished with a little more charcoal and used a kneaded erasure to soften some areas.  He had long black hair but I left it mostly out since fashions change.

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Drawing Of Hand Outstretched

A drawing of a hand with fingers outstretched. Drawn in charcoal and pencil.

Drawing of hand outstretched.

The best way to learn how to draw hands is to draw hands, so I am sketching some as practice. There are many theories about drawing hands but nothing beats just doing it.

I drew this first in 2b pencil developing the outline by mentally measuring points against points. To do this I would imagine a grid over the image and compare points with other points on the grid.

After the outline I did the first rough in with the 2b pencil by shading in the lightest tones and then buffed them with a stub.

I followed that with a go over of the darkest areas using a light charcoal pencil which I blended slightly. I went over some of the medium values again with the 2b and blended then finished the details with the pencil.

I did a little touch up with the charcoal and then called it done.

I purposely quit the project before it looked too finished. I could strive for a more photographic results, and if I had the time maybe I would, but lately I have felt that drawings should look like drawings.

I am mostly happy with the sketch and will keep it to measure my progress toward improvement in rendering hands.

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Charcoal Sketch Of Man with a Hard Look About Him

It is not an exact representation of the actor Jeremy Renner but an attempt to capture his hard edge.

Charcoal drawing inspired by Jeremy Renner

This was a quick drawing in charcoal pencil. I didn't take the time to smooth out the lines and make it look soft since the emotion is cold and the expression is serious. I had only about 45 minutes to work on it.

I CHANGED MY MIND
I was going to leave a lot of places empty like a statement but there is a rare completeness in this man's face that speaks of an ideal of fulfilled manhood that it would be a misstatement to draw him as anything less. It is nice to find a face to draw that is truly manly.

DARK
I wanted the dark areas to be deep and somber but was afraid that too much black would overpower the picture. I was afraid the face would be too white by contrast, (I regret it is a little paler than what I was hoping for).

LIGHT
I thought about adding a little white charcoal to the highlights but decided it would make the picture too complicated.

If I had more time to work on it I would give more attention to the overall value of the face and make it a shade darker and deepen the shadows some; I would have worked on the eyes more since that was where the power of the expression is.

Portrait of Young Woman, Using Contrasting Technique.

Titled: Emergence The Woman

Pencil and Charcoal Portrait of Young Woman

My concept was that I wanted the subject to look like she was emerging from herself.

I did a light under sketch and began to work the face using pencil. I worked a lot on blending and smoothing the contours. I progressed from hb pencil to 4 and 6 b pencil and then to hb, medium and last soft charcoal pencil.

In contrast to the blending and care of the face I used a different approach for the hair leaving it implied and sketchy. I wanted this to look like a drawing not a photo.

The resource material had little to work with and lacked details. There is more than one way to deal with scanty information, this time I ignored as much as I could and worked around things that were not in my resources. I could have embellished or supplemented more details from other sources but I wanted to focus on the concept of a spiritual concept of coming forward.  

 I am very happy with the results.

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