Illustrations :)

This is a good practice for me. Instead of reproducing something I see I have to come up with things out of my head. Now some of these are out of my head, some have been changed from an original picture, and some are just quick studies.

*UGH! The scanner is just washing the drawings. It really doesn't look this white, oh well.

"Mirrors of Reflection"

"Mirrors of Reflection"

Charcoal drawing by McKenzie Clarke

I did this study in about 4.5 hours in class with a live portrait model in class. She is an old lady named Rose. I love to work with charcoal because it has a sense of expression and flow that pencil cannot capture. It is a medium that is a mixture of pencil and painting because you work with line but you can also shape it out to work spatially like painting. This is a blurry picture I wish I had a better camera.