February 2015 Challenge Face #9

And here is face #9.... I hope he makes you smile :)

February 2015 Challenge Face #7

Happy Saturday! One week of the challenge is done- another 3 left to go.

Face #7

I'm in love with his eyes :) 

29 Faces Feb-2015 Face #1

Day one is a real quick sketch I did to test out a new kind of charcoal stick....

He was a fun, crazy face to do. My photo guide was an old, hairy Gypsy. I might re-use the guide photo but use pencil instead...

Happy Superbowl!!!! GO HAWKS!

September 2014 Face #12... I think...

Home improvements have taken over my free time but at least I don't have a gaping hole in my living room wall anymore :)  I was able to carve out sometime tonight  and got a face done. Tomorrow I'm taking a well deserved break and hopefully will be able to catch up on my faces.

Face #12 was a request...a very insistent request from my facebook page.

John Wayne.

September 2014, Face #6 and #7

I found a little free time last night, and while I watched a movie, I also got faces #6 and #7 done.
These faces are personal, I had been trying to draw them for over three years. The guide photo is of my grandparents, just before my grandfather went into heart surgery, it turned out to be the last photo of them together.
I wanted to  draw it for his memorial, but couldn't bring myself to do it, his death was still too fresh.
So, almost four years later, here it is...

September 2014, Face #3

Face #3 frustrated me. I loved the photo I used as a guide, but early on I had skewed the face somehow, (proportions, angles, something was wrong in the beginning), but I just kept going with it, I was trying to make whatever I did work (which usually works out fine). There is a lot about this face that I like, but as a whole I am not happy with it, and decided to stop messing with it, because I was taking hours just touching up little areas. I started on face #4 instead and left this one as is.

Face #3....