Salma Hayek

Compressed Charcoal in A4 sheet.

Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy

People who enjoy and love the carnatic based movie songs will be very much aware of this beloved soul.  Not much explanation or story required to introduce this piece, I believe!  The motive was to finish the strokes with less than an hour and that was accomplished.  Could have improved more, but this looked satisfactory.

Shobana

This is the first post of the year, the subject is one of my favorite dancer.  It took less than an hour of one sitting(approx 50 mins) to make this. Hopefully I'm exploring and picking up the nuances of dynamic nature of this medium .  The size is about 1/4th of an A4 sheet :)

from the lost pages.

This was done long back in a simple unruled A3 notebook with a ball point pen.  Found this while dusting some old books.  It's quite surprising by the way it reveals where I started and where I'm ended up now.

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Watched the movie 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' and that was enough to inspire me to make these dark marks which eventually turned out to what you see below!

Audrey Tautou

I'm falling in love with this medium!
Compressed charcoal stick in normal A4 sheet.

Shakthisree Gopalan

this was a quick one, the motive was to complete the sketch in 5.59 mins(same time that took for this cover version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5eioErIWM) of some songs: looping in my headset). Unfortunately it looped twice when I reached this shape.

Anyways it was not that disappointing!!!  Enjoyed the process and got something to cherish when I come here later some time...