Boo

Source photo

Cumberhatching

My scanner is adding those "smudges" going off to the right! Pages are getting warpy after spraying fixative.
Source photo:

Rembrandt copy - ink pen. Trying to loosen up

Love his expression.  Sorry 'bout the wonky eye there, bud!

Ok, Maybe I Have a Thing for Bowie

I'm gonna just draw him until I get him right.  Source photo

BACK!

That was entirely too long a hiatus.  No construction responsibilities currently hanging over my head, so going to resurrect the bloggie.

Got back into the swing when I was photoshopping my face.  I decided to try a sketch.  My eye. Click for big pic:

I actually overlayed the image onto the photoshop photo so I could see where I made mistakes.  This is a "fixed" version.  The original had my cheekbone about 1/2" farther away and had a bit of my other eye showing.  So, erased the other eye corner, moved the hair in (I think it's still farther out than it should be), and re-positioned my old lady middle brow crease. Measuring is important!

Fast one of a shadowy Benedict Cumberbatch from a web pic. I'd link to it but I can't find again! It was high contrast.  No measuring again, nose is too short: Just wanted to play with shadows more.

Bald eagle from the interwebz.  I thought I could make those eyes look recessed, and I think I did pretty well.  I like this one!

Shading practice based on lessons from drawspace.com.  Lines, hatching, squirkles, gradations. 

Rather than grab random scraps of paper from the kitchen table, I should (I will!) do this in my sketchbook from now on.