Mystery : This is a quick pastel drawing I did in a few hours. 
I decided to get my pastels out and started playing around with colours on a large piece of black card. 
I was originally going to do a Halloween drawing but ended up with something completely different instead.
The girl is roughly based on a stock photo by insomnia-stock on Deviantart - http://fav.me/d5hx122

Photo taken on my camera phone so it’s not the best quality photo.
Rather an odd size, it’s about 60cm x 32 cm (23 1/2 inch x 12 1/2 inch).

Happy Halloween to you all, hope you have a great one!

Thought I would show you the two pumpkins I’ve done this year.

I did the one with the cat in the tree for my Grandad, I decided to do a dragon with the other. I had fun making them!

Work in progress: Drawing of Amy Lee (Amy Hartzler).

Work in progress: Here’s a progress update on the drawing I’m doing of the singer Amy Lee (Amy Hartzler) from the band Evanescence.

Still got quite a bit to do yet but it’s starting to come together now.
It’s an A3 sized drawing, so far I’ve used HB & 2B mechanical pencils(0.5mm), various other grades of pencil up to 5B, Blending stumps, tissues, cotton buds and erasers.

Finished drawing - Jessica Alba

My finished drawing of the actress Jessica Alba. To draw this I used various grades of pencil ranging from 5H to 5B, HB & 2B mechanical pencil (0.5mm), blending stumps, tissues, cotton buds( Q tips), and erasers.  Size A3 (42x29.7cm) on 130gsm cartridge paper.

Alice.
This is a drawing of a pet dog that I recently finished for someone.
Not drawn an animal for a long time so it made a nice change drawing something like this.
It’s drawn on A3 (42 x 29.7cm) 250gsm smooth Bristol board.
I used various grades of pencil ranging from 4H to 5B, 
HB and 2B mechanical pencils (0.5mm), blending stumps, tissues, cotton buds, putty and normal erasers.

I will have another drawing finished very soon, the drawing of Jessica Alba in a white dress. Just got a few finishing touches to do to it yet. Looking forward to showing it to you.

Have you ever wondered what some of my old pencil drawings would look like in colour?
I’ve been playing with my drawings on the computer with my paint program (Paint.NET).
Thought it would be interesting and a bit of fun to add colour to some of my drawings. So I did this for my own Facebook cover picture. Thought I would let you see it.
I’m not great at using paint programs but I had some fun doing this.

I coloured Matt Smith and the TARDIS from my Doctor Who drawing, My Sarah Michelle Gellar portrait and The vampiress from my Nocturnal drawing.

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New drawing finished

Keeping secrets
 

Lots of dark and black in this, I went through so much pencil lead doing it.
I used a photo reference from SaligiaStock on deviantart – http://saligiastock.deviantart.com/
I liked the contrast between the light and dark and thought it would make an interesting drawing.
Size is A4 (210mm x 297mm) 220gsm smooth cartridge paper, HB and 2B 5mm mechanical pencil, 
various grades of pencil ranging from 4h to 5B, tissues, cotton buds, blending stumps and erasers. 

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Hope you all enjoyed the holidays!

I took a break from drawing over the holidays but I’m back to it today.

Got a few drawings that I need to get finished, so hopefully will have some new completed art to show you soon.

I’ve got quite a few ideas going around in my head for other things to draw this year too, hope you’re going to like what I come up with in 2012.

Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a very happy new year and I hope 2012 will be a fantastic year for you all!

A quick pastel drawing I did to wish you all the best this holiday season and hope you all have a happy new year. 

Jessica Alba drawing is next in line to be finished.

Work in progress update.

Here’s a bit more progress on this drawing.
It’s starting to get there now but still got work to do yet, got to add some more detail, shading and blending yet.

Photo reference is from SaligiaStock on Deviantart - http://saligiastock.deviantart.com/
I’m trying to get this finished as soon as poss but I am also working on a large dog portrait for someone too.
I’m looking forward to showing you the finished piece! 


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Change of plan concerning my drawing of Geddy Lee.

I took a break from the dog commission last night to do a bit of work on my drawing of Geddy Lee, but I’m not too satisfied with how it’s going at the moment, so I am going to put it one side for a while, until after the new year. Because I will eventually be drawing the other two members of the band, I think I will wait and show you when all three are finished. So, I am going to work on getting this drawing finished instead.

Preview of some upcoming drawings.

Work in progress of a commissioned dog portrait - Alice.

The person I’m doing this for has very kindly been given permission to show you the progress of this drawing. Still much to do, shading blending and fine details will be done next, then it should really start to come together.

I’m enjoying drawing it and it’s nice to be drawing an animal for a change.

It’s quite large, drawn on size A3 smooth Bristol board.

So far I’ve used HB and 2B mechanical pencils.

I’m still trying to do bits on my other drawings in between doing it but mainly concentrating on this at the moment.

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 This is another of the pieces that I’m working on, just doing bits on this in between other drawings. Quite a lot still to do on it yet.
Reference for this comes from SaligiaStock on Deviantart - http://saligiastock.deviantart.com/
I liked the contrast from dark to light. The black in the background really is that dark, I’ve gone through so much pencil lead doing it so far.
It’s drawn on A4 220gsm smooth cartridge paper, so far using HB, 2B mechanical pencils(0.5mm) and 5B pencil.
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I’ve not been too well recently and drawing progress has been slow, sorry for not keeping my tumblr updated,  but I’m much better now and am back in the swing of things.
Have not gotten round to finishing the Geddy Lee drawing that I showed you in my last post but plan to get it finished during this week.

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devinnremakes2much-deactivated2 asked: I love your drawing of Geddy Lee! I can't wait to see your drawing of Alex Lifeson! c: Great work! RUSH FOREVER.

Thank you!

I want to get the Geddy one finished soon but I’ve already got the guitar done for the Alex drawing.

RUSH ARE AWESOME!