Here’s the finished painting, based on Will Kemp’s still life e-book. I posted the work-in-progress here.

Here’s the finished painting, based on Will Kemp’s still life e-book. I posted the work-in-progress here.

I worked on this figure (from the reference shown) last year, but never completed it. Maybe later…


Lesson 1 of Charcoal Like Mad (by Kara Bullock) was to draw a portrait on cardboard (!) using the reference photo provided, and compressed charcoal (black and white), and charcoal pencils (black and white).
I only had corrugated cardboard available so I used that. Not crazy about the ridges, but hey, it was just play! This was fun — but I pressed too hard on the nose and busted a hole in the cardboard!

This is the first of three quick sketches of street musicians we are doing for the Graphite module of the DrawAwesome class. Emphasis is on getting the basic proportions of the figure correct, and playing fast and loose with shading, hands, clothing. 2B and 4B pencils only.


I was checking out the Artists Network “Drawing Together” site, and the 100th episode features drawing a slice of cake. This is my quick sketch attempt. I used graphite instead of charcoal.
