A Sketch Blog Recording my Attempts to Render Pretty Feminine Faces in Pencil with Occasional Use of Charcoal, Crayon, and other Artistic Media

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Short on time for sketch viewing? See the first 272 (or so) sketches I've posted in a 34 second music video!

Sketch #4

Here's sketch number 4. After doing most of the sketch in graphite pencil (as I generally do), I added some color to the lips with a red watercolor pencil and darkened the eyelines and lashes a bit using a charcoal pencil.

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Sketch #3

I think I like her smile the best so far. The women in my previous two posts are smiling, but their smiles strike me as somewhat forced and artificial compared to this one.

So far all of the sketches I've posted have been pretty much the "straight ahead" pose. That will probably continue for a while as I want to learn to do one thing really well before I branch out too much, but I do intend to try other orientations eventually (profile, 3/4 and so on).

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Second Sketch

And here is my second sketch. I hope to post several sketches a week.

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First Sketch

Ok, here is my first sketch (first sketch for this blog, that is).

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