Charcoal sketch of mamookoya

you can find the making here : youtube 

mayflower

graphite stick on A5 sketch book.

Vidya Balan water color study

This actress is one of my favourite.  It's not a great portrait but felt it worth sharing. In addition, here's the link for the making video as well from Youtube

artgraf #2

This is the second attempt with the artgraf pigment block in A5 sketchbook.  How is it?  A making video of the same is posted here making video in youtube

urmila, failed attempt

watercolor on sketchbook

artgraf test run

Artgraf pigment block test run.

maddy

Ink wash on A5 sketchbook

anusree

A5 sketcbook and pencil

Tom Hanks

Ink on A5 sketchbook.  I've started a youtube channel as well, you can see the making of this portrait  here

Obama

Ink on A5 sheet.

Sashi Tharoor

Home made charcoal in A5 sheet

charcoal portrait

speed sketch

speed sketch

breaking the 24 post a year checklist,  successfully entered the 25 count...

speed sketch

Another speed sketch - graphite on paper

graphite sketch

another landscape speed sketch

charcoal sketch

Random sketches...

tonal values and composition

I've been watching lots of watercolor painting tutorials lately.  Many of them were stressing these two points:
1. Tonal values (get this right and no matter what colour you use, everything ends up well).
2. Composition (what goes where and how much of it is visible in terms of shapes).  Some artists adds something from their memory, some removes the clutter and give more breathing space/environment to their work.
Here's two of such studies.  I was not giving importance to the details in it.

page #2

This sketch was also done while in a meeting where I was not really required. Not editing (cropping or trimming away)the empty space. Here it is...

speed sketch

Here's another speed sketch in charcoal.  This is one of my favorite actress, unfortunately this didn't turn out well as expected.