Walken

Christopher Walken in charcoal. 11x14 toned gray paper.

Prince

Black and white charcoal in 11x14 toned gray paper.

Asian Beauty

Black and white charcoal on gray toned paper. This artwork was inspired from the work of Chen Shu-Fen, a digital artist. I was trying to explore on some other style of art outside the world of caricature that I would like to try it myself, and I stumbled on japanese manga and anime. I think there are a lot of great asian artists out there who are equally good.

The Mistress

Black and white charcoal on gray toned paper. Her being a mistress to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaragoza has nothing to do why I decided to draw her. Her beauty and the light setting was just perfect as my subject. Her name is Mirthala Salinas, which was all over the news when their story broke out. The title "The Mistress" is just a catchy phrase.
Showing below the top finished artwork are the stages of the process.

The Mayor's Mistress

Colored pencil in Stratmore medium paper. 12 colors is what I have by Loew and Cornell brand and I feel so inadequate and limited. At the early part of process I was already thinking of quitting for the same reason, but nonetheless I continued with persistence. Its frustrating just the same on mixing the colors to get the effect I wanted. I thought of using the brown paper which has more teeth and roughness to hold the pigments, but I ran out of it, so I was stuck of what is at hand. I wasn't really sure of the outcome of this until it was finally finished. Voila! And there it is.

Hatching experiment

Black and white charcoal on gray toned paper.

"Ripper Street"

Mathew Macfadyen in charcoal. 9x12 Gray toned paper.
This is the funny part of the process behind this artwork: looking at the picture at the start of the drawing, I thought the picture I was working on was of Hugh Jackman (X-Men). Honestly, it really look like him so the whole time I was thinking about Hugh Jackman and how to make it look like him. At the end of the drawing I thought of checking the whole cast of that show, Ripper Street. It turned out that I was wrong for the whole time I was trying to make him look like Jackman. The man happen to be Mathew Macfadyen!

Ciaran Hinds

Charcoal on gray toned paper.

A First

Digital. At long last I was able to come up with something more decent painting. I thought that this tech is more of a friendly user, that I disregard totally reading any literature on how to go about it. Sure enough it has put me through a lot of hits and misses. It took me 4 hours to complete this one- phew! (Well, I was able to mow and water my whole lawn in-between. Ha!) I could be better. It's just a start.

Remembering War Heroes

Graphite on 5.5 x 8.5 ins. paper.