I like drawing portraits because when you’re done you know if you’ve done something good or not. These are all around 24x 30 and done with vine charcoal. I prefer to draw portraits of other people but you learn a ton from self portraits. Like for instance, I learned that I suck at it.
This is a friend of mine. She wanted a portrait for her boyfriend. I did this mostly from a photo but she had to sit for some of the facial details.
This is a portrait from a photo as well.
This is a portrait of me from photo. And yes that is a blazer with the sleves rolled up. I was at an 80's throwback party. The white charcoal is really bright in the photo for some reason.