I drew this glass as a follow-along effort based on what I learned at The Drawing Source website.

I drew this glass as a follow-along effort based on what I learned at The Drawing Source website.

This image is based on a reference image by inna mikitas from Pixabay. I used mostly Richeson hand-rolled pastels from their portrait sets.

This drawing in vine charcoal is based off an image by inna mikitas from Pixabay. The paper is a brown shade of Canson Mi-Tientes. My intention is add color with soft pastels.

This study was done on “Cinnamon” Canson Mi-Teintes (smooth side) in charcoal, soft pastel and pastel pencil. It was based on a demo in Sarah Hoggett’s Drawing & Painting Portraits & Figures: A complete step-by-step course, with 35 projects and 800 photographs.

Another hand based on the Crilley book…

This speaks for itself, and is based from the awesome book Mark Crilley’s Ultimate Book of Drawing Hands.

This drawing is based on a photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash which was used in the ArtTutor.com “How to Draw Portraits (in Graphite) by Phil Davies.
I did this portrait using charcoal and graphite.

Ears are something I need to practice as well, mostly because I want to get the inner shapes right on a profile-view.


I have several books on portrait drawing, and drawing facial features. This is practice drawing eyes, and remembering that eye is actually a ball. The eyelids wrap around the spherical shape of the eyeball.
