Walken

Christopher Walken in charcoal. 11x14 toned gray paper.

Prince

Black and white charcoal in 11x14 toned gray paper.

Harry

Harry Connick Jr., classical trained jazz pianist,vocalist, and composer. Black and white charcoal in 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.

"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.