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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Pocket Sketchbook Portrait

I carry a pocket sketchbook and recommend all artist do. I have had many opportunities to sketch and was glad to have the little 4x6 book handy. Sometimes I keep it in a coat pocket or in a messenger bag with some other art supplies, including pencils and mediums and a few photos or a magazine with pictures to use for inspiration. Sometimes I might be in a coffee shop and jut pull out a magazine and start from there to do a picture and that was how this little portrait came to be. As I drank a cup of coffee I pulled out a clothing catalog I picked up and kept in my messenger bag.  In the catalogue was a woman modeling a sweater with a high collar. I felt it was time to just do a little drawing of a face so I sketched this one out.

I used a basic hb pencil and a stub for most of it and then a few erasers like a classic pink eraser and an artist's kneaded eraser. I sketched it lightly at first and then progressively darkened things over until I felt it was done which probably means I got bored with the project. After sketching it I crumpled up the resource page from the magazine and went back home. At home I looked at it again without the benefit of the original photo and I made a few changes to the hair and face.

I like the results and it was a rewarding afternoon with coffee and my sketchbook.

Portrait done in a pocket sketchbook

I may use this as a study for a painting at some future date.

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Pencil Drawing of a Young Oriental Woman With Long Hair.

I do not always enjoy drawing a beautiful face, they are too common and the person is usually very demanding of representing some concept of perfection. But this beautiful Oriental woman has a matching beautiful personality. She has become a favorite model for me.

I did this quick study in pencil using a 2h and an 8h for the darkest areas. The long hair is very interesting for me since it gives opportunity to experiment with flowing lines that I do not always get to try. She often has one eye hidden like it is playing peek-a-boo.

 

Pencil Portrait of  Young Oriental Woman

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Pencil and Charcoal Portrait of an Old Mountain Man.

I drew this picture while in the waiting room at the doctor's office today. It started as a piece from my imagination. I let it develop on its own. I did not want to do something common so decided to draw a rugged old outdoors type of guy. At first, I was going to draw him face forward but instead give the face a turn to give the picture more interest.

The Mountain Man a Pencil and charcoal Portrait.

After I did a rough draft in pencil I looked around the room and began to get inspiration from the people in the room. Several old men had beards so I worked it in. The winter clothing was an invention of mine. I was trying to get a fleece texture on the cap and collar of his coat

After I finished the face I decided the picture needed something. I feel it is important for a picture to tell a story not just be a picture so I observed a man holding a cell phone and it gave me the idea to put his hand holding something in the picture.

I used a mixture of charcoal and graphite to draw this picture.

I am happy with it,

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Pencil Sketch Of Young Woman With Big Eyes

Pencil sketch of a young woman who had big eyes and thin lips. It takes a lot of practice to draw an accurate face. Every time I think I am finished I look at it and see more that needs to be done or something that needs to be corrected. But I got to a finishing point and am happy with this project.

I am not trying to draw something that is super realistic. I want my drawings to look like drawings. I am not trying to draw an ideal but a nice picture which means there may be decisions about values or lines that are not correct but the choice is for the outcome of the picture.

I drew this in pencil only. I used a blending stub a lot but did not rub out the pencil marks where I blended. I drew it in a small 5x8 sketchbook.

This woman is someone who is a hard worker in a production area at an office.

Pencil Drawing Of Woman with Big Eyes. 

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Pencil Portrait of a Teen Aged Blond Woman

This is a teenaged fashion model.

I drew this in a small 9x6 sketchbook/ I drew it with a4b, 2b.and 6b pencils. It took about an hour. Since it was a small area there is more difficulty with details, a little mistake is bigger. I found that I had to go back over the features, again and again, to get things right.

Pencil sketch of a teenage model.

Her hair was light so I was trying to keep it light and still give some detail. I was really wishing I had some charcoal to work with but I didn't bring any with me. Charcoal gives some beautiful values in a drawing that pencil just can't match.

A lot of portraits have the neck and under jaw in dark shadows and my resource material did but I kept the values lighter because the dark jawline and neck looks contrived and makes the face look like it is coming out of some cave.  I added a dark area on the top to give the dark below the neck some balance.

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Pencil Drawing of young Woman's Face

I did this in a coffee shop one afternoon and then touched it up a little at home.

I drew this in a small pocket sketchbook that I always carry.   I started out with an HB pencil that I had on me at the time. At home, I deepened a few of the values  with 4b and 6b pencils.  I used a little of a blending stub to smooth out some of the rough areas.

Since I was working in a small pocket sketchbook there was not a lot of opportunities to develop the detail.

Pencil Drawing of a Woman's Face.

I am very pleased with the results.  If it was a larger sketchbook I know I could have done more.  It takes as much talent to know when to end a project as the talent to do the project; if I kept working on it for another hour I would only have been able to make minimal improvements.

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A Quick Portrait Sketch While standing In Line.

I did this quick pencil sketch while standing in line to get into a tourist attraction. The line was moving slowly so I was able to get some satisfactory work done on it.

The sketchbook was a small one that I keep in a pocket. I used a common pencil

The subject was the person at the ticket counter. She kept moving and so it was hard to get a good rendition, but in this case a good results may not be an accurate representation but a recognizable image.

A quick Sketch While Standing in Line

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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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A Doodle, Man's Face, In Pencil.

Here is a little project I did when I was teaching some kids about drawing a basic face. It combines the characteristics of several resources.

Sketch of Face a doodle

It is not a project I am very pleased with but it has some good points.

I was trying to have his skin be pale and his hair platinum blond. It came out more cartoon than representational. I am not trying to draw a very real picture on purpose those who make pencil drawings that look like photographs are amazing but I wonder why bother and why not just take a photo. I want my drawings to look like drawings. I stop while they still look a little primitive.

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Minimalist Pencil and Charcoal Sketch of Man Smiling

This is a sketch I did while teaching a class of kids to draw a face. The point I was trying to make is that you need to keep loose and enjoy the drawing process. I used a casual scribbling technique to make the image of the man smiling. I first did it in pencil and then deepened some of the lines with charcoal. I think it turned out very expressive. I could have done a lot to develop the picture but I like the minimalist effect.

Charcoal and Pencil Quick Sketch. 

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Drawing of Young Womanl in a Hat

This is a quick sketch I did of a young lady in a hat. The light was from below so there was some interesting shadows. I liked the light hair and the contrast the hair had with the other textures of the hat.

Pencil and Charcoal drawing of  Young Woman in Hat

I started drawing this in pencil and I am afraid I overdrew the project since I wanted to work on it only for about an hour and was afraid that I might have created a project that was too ambitious for that time frame. The charcoal was only for the deeper shadows and the details around the eyes.

I wanted to focus on the gaze and practice drawing the eyes. I wanted to leave a lot for the imagination and still have a full image.

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Pencil Drawing, Man With a Crooked Smile

Pencil portrait of a man with a crooked smile. 

This is a sketch I did while waiting for my son at an appointment. It is a man with a crooked smile.

Pencil Drawing Of Man With Crooked Smile. 

I chose this project because the man had a long face and high forehead. I thought his light tones would be a fun challenge. I drew this with several pencils. I chose pencils for this since the man was so fair skinned and had white hair.

I began with a 2b pencil to get everything in place. I then went over it with an hb to get things more defined. For a while I alternated between these two pencils they are similar but have slight differences.

I used the blending stub to round out the face and work in the shadows. I reworked the picture with the pencils for a while and alternated between pencils and stubs.

The background was done with the stub and whatever the material was that had dirtied it from being used. This helps clean the stub for the face work.

The last ten percent was done with a 6b and an 8b pencil. I am always a little cautious with these pencils since they get very dark and make everything a black monochrome; they are really hard to control.

After I finished I took a paper towel and rubbed down the tone of the background to take away the rubbing marks.

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Pencil Sketch of Nice Old Man Gregg

How does pencil differ from charcoal in drawing a portrait? I normally draw in charcoal but did this one in pencil almost by accident. It was a pleasure.

I have been doing a lot of charcoal portraits and I usually start my charcoal drawings with a rough sketch in a pencil; but this time I just keep on drawing in pencil. I had forgotten that it is softer and does not have the deep dark value that charcoal has.

PENCIL FEELS
Pencil feels more silky than charcoal. I know that is a strange thing to say, you would think that drawing is drawing no matter how you do it. I enjoy the experience of drawing; part of that experience is the reaction of the pencil to the paper I am drawing on. I come to expect a grinding effect of the charcoal on the paper. It was refreshing to draw in pencil.

I found I needed to keep changing the value of the pencil. I started with an hb pencil and had to go to a softer and darker pencil and finally had to go to darker, softer pencil like a 4b to get the dark I wanted, but it was not as dark as a charcoal.

BLENDING
I used a blending stub just a little to soften the tone, Because of the finer graphite medium I felt the stub was moving too much medium on the page but it was easy to lift out with my kneaded erasure.  Afterward I ended going back over the blended area with a pencil again to restore the values and texture.

DETAIL LINES
The pencil was better to get the fine lines. You can get fine lines with charcoal but it takes a lot of discipline and you have to maintain the point with an obsession.

This was a quick study I did it while waiting in for my kid.

Anyone can draw a pretty face of a young beauty but to draw a happy old man with the character of a life well lived- now that takes talent!

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Pencil Portrait Drawing of a Young Man

Here is an example of a portrait done with Prismacolor pencils in my Strathmore Sketchbook. It took a couple of hours. I really wanted to capture all the different colors that were hinted in the face. The lighting was from behind and all the light on the face was secondary, I usually like a strong light and deep shadows but it is good to get out of your comfort zone and try something different.

Pencil Drawing of a Young Man

I normally avoid using black in any of my work because by mixing colors I feel I get a richer more vibrant black but I made an exception this time to have a consistent black to hopefully tie the project together.

Jeff has a heavy beard and that was a challenge to do without making him look dark in an unnatural way. I did a lot of blending in layers with browns and blues to shadow his beard in.

I thought his tousled hair gave him character; I wanted to make sense of it and still have it casually sticking out. It is easy to get carried away and make his hair just stick out everywhere and careful judgment needs to be taken to not overdo it.

I am happy with it and it was a lot of fun to relax and draw a picture

Color pencil drawing of Jeff.

I drew this just for fun and to practice. I keep a sketchbook in a courier bag and carry it wherever I go. I draw while waiting for kids at different places and at different times.

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Pencil Quick Sketch of Teen Girl

Quick Pencil Sketch of Young Woman

Here is a quick sketch I did of a young woman I know. She was a student in a high school art class, and sat as a model for a class of younger children to draw her. This is the picture I did as I was helping the younger kids. It was something I was doing while moving around the room and I would show one child one thing by drawing on this picture and another child another thing adding to this picture as I went around.

It is not a picture with a lot of merit except that it was drawn in a total of about 20 minutes- just a quick sketch.  To do a quick sketch is a great exercise. It really loosens you up. I started with an hb pencil and finished with a soft charcoal. I like to use charcoal since it is more forgiving and lends itself to blending and value studies exceptionally well. If I was doing a serious picture I would not have used sketchbook paper but a sheet of heavier acid free cold press paper.

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Pencil Sketch of a Woodcutter

Here is a sketch I did of a man who was carving a ladle out of wood using old craftsman's techniques.  Portraiture of people in the work place are great, they show action without too much drama so the viewers attention is kept on the subject and not carried away by events.

I drew this in pencil in a sketchbook. It took a couple of hours. I was hoping to have a strong contrast with the apron. I wanted to keep the background simple but also wanted to give him a place of being so I put in a few details around him, but I didn't want to distract from the woodcutter so I kept it simple. I experimented with blending stubs on this quite a bit.



This is a pencil sketch I did of a man who was carving spoons out of wood at a historical fair. It was drawn in pencil in my sketchbook.


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Charcoal Pencil Sketch of a Young Model

This is a sketch I did of a young woman.  I found her picture in a clothing catalogue. Catalogues and magazines are good sources to find subjects to draw. This woman was modeling a swimsuit. I thought her young face was a nice challenge. I made changes to her hair and took out the hand in the hair, it is a portrait of her face and I didn't want to have things to distract from the face. I only did a strap on one shoulder of the suit only enough to show she was wearing something without making the clothing the subject of the sketch; making decisions like that are part of the fun of a sketch.

I took about 5 hours to sketch this. I kinda got board I would work on it another hour or so. It was done in charcoal pencil on acid free paper.  

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Pencil Sketch of an Old Man.

This is a pencil sketch I did of an old man from a newspaper article. I love to sketch people of any age, I get bored sketching only beautiful young people.

It was drawn in pencil on a 5x9 practice pad it took about 2 hours. It is a lovely picture to see but the camera failed to capture all the tones of the pencil very well. If I drew this again I would have used more mixed media to capture the character of the man. 

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