Frida

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

Testing my new Copic Ciao markers. Just got a 36 pc set (purchased a few more additional colors). These are a shitload of fun!!! I had a great time drawing/painting these three little portraits.
I have a feeling I'll be using less and less photoshop for coloring, Copic markers are way more fun! :-)

Indy - my first test

Nathan Fillion - aka Richard Castle. Love watching the series :-)

Stana Katic - this girl is crazy beautiful!!! The likeness is not too good, but nevertheless, I had a great time draing this one

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

Danny boy :-)

for a weekly caricature contest over at Facebook

 Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister

J.K. Simmons

the pencil sketch

and the digital painting

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

another Franz Xavier Winterhalter study

Franz Xavier Winterhalter study

sketching ..

sanguine

quick sketch

sanguine