Portrait class

I decided to step out of my comfort zone and take a class I would fear from start to finish--Drawing portraits with charcoal. I stink at drawing people so a few years ago I vowed to try my hardest to get better at it. Here is one of the very first people sketches I did:

May 16th 2011

From that point on I started to enjoy drawing people: in restaurants, waiting rooms, coffee shops, airports, airplanes, school meetings, you name it. So this class was not so much "sketching" as it was "drawing". So I grabbed my tools and dove in! 

All were made with a combo of: Conte a Paris; conte pencils, and charcoal all on fancy Canson gray toned paper. 

week 1

week 2

week 3