Portrait Studies

I have spent my time this year further developing my drawing skills and portrait drawing is a great way to challenge your skills of observation and accuracy of execution. My hope is that this attention to detail will help with all of my drawing.
I have been trying various methods and procedures and will write about that another time.

I have been working from life but so far, these drawings are not ready for public review! By the way, I am in need of models who would like to sit for an hour or so for me and as long as you do not expect a great work of art or even a very good likeness to result, I could really use the practice.

The portraits below have been drawn from photographs. Some of my first attempts  represent only a passing likeness of the subject. I am feeling more confident with the process of portrait drawing and continue to work on accuracy.

 Claire,  8.5 x 11 inches, sanguine

This is one of my latest and actually looks like the model

 model in charcoal 1, 8.5 x 11, charcoal and pastel

 Continuous Ink Line drawing. 8.5 x 11 inches
This is a good likeness of the model. The initial marks were placed a continuous line drawing with the shading added at the end.

 Sanguine and white pastel. 8.5 x 11 inches
I love this sensitive medium and the resulting drawing is lovely although it is not a good likeness of the model.