Frida

Two Caricatures of Frida from last night - Copic markers & white charcoal

Some more new portraits

a study - drew this one while watching Scott Waddell's portrait painting video - very inspiring

quick sanguine doodle

sanguine and white charcoal on grey paper, inspired by a Tony Ryder painting

Some new portraits

a quick charcoal doodle

sanguine conte pencil on paper plus some acrylic washes, messy job.. :-)

Sepia Conte pencil on cheap yellow office paper
Inspired by me all time favorite portrait painter - Franz Xavier Winterhalter

Дядо Добри

Generals charcoal pencils - black and white

guess what - charcoal :-)

another one of the series - B&W generals charcoal pencil study - after a GREAT Russian painter Ivan Kuzmich Makarov

Another charcoal

Generals B&W charcoal pencils on toned paper - some refs used in the very beginning

Mark Twain

Generals B&W charcoal pencils

charcoal sketch from imagination

the big guy from Game of thrones

charcoal sketch from imagination

quick sketch

Kanye West caricature

Done for a weekly contest over at FB.
Kanye's the victim this week :-)))

portrait in pencil

inspired by the Ron Lemen DVD

another one

watercolors and pastels on paper, no refs

portrait sketch

quick portrait in sanguine, no refs

quick and dirty sketch

charcoal portrait

funny characters

These are quick 20-30 min drawings done just for the fun of it.
Tools used: pencils, grey markers, charcoal, white chalk

The cowboy :-)

the gangsta

the Teacher

The geek:-)

The waiter

Aaaaand finally - the gipsy hunter:-))

Hilarie Burton

It was supposed to be Hilarie.. :-)
I had a really hard time with the hair..

Indian chief

A messy sketch using watercolors, pastels, markers, pencils, gouache .. oops, I forgot to throw in some ketchup as well, next time :-))
Some refs used in the beginning, probably a Howard Terpning's piece, don't remember..

Yaro

 a friend and a colleague of mine