angelina jolie

Not sure whether I succeeded in bringing the likeness here, but here's the result. Done in my diary with a ball point pen.

portrait-study eyes

This was done in my diary with a fountain pen. This lady is mysterious, her eyes are oblivious to the surroundings(at least to me). It has a depressed look always. Don't know whether I was able to bring out that 'essence' here....

portrait of sis

The original photograph was clicked long back, found it from an old album :), but the portrait made in pencil was clicked just couple of weeks back.

Medium: Pencil 2B.
Size: A5 sheet.
Status: Private collection.

charcoal portraits

This is my first attempt in charcoal. And the subject is not a celebrity, I just found the expression interesting and doodled it. ;)

kid sketch

This cool guy is my neighbor.  I tried to do his portrait, asked him to stay still for just 15 mins. Kids are really good subjects with full of happiness and energy! But its really hard to make them stay still, staring at something doing nothing. This guy was so restless and finally photographed him maintaining the angle I started with. This was the final result. :)

Aparna nair

This was my second attempt in charcoal. I'm finally falling in love with this medium as this gives that extra dark strokes with ease.  The trade-off here is smudging of the medium which is more when compared to pencils.  Hope this can be fixed with a decent fixative! needs to do some more research on that though.

colleague sketch

For me making portraiture becomes easier when I'm in that creative spike where I don't feel any hesitation to make graphite marks on paper! being in sync with the subject also matters to a great extend.  This piece of work came out of urgency, she gave me a deadline of 12 hrs. In fact I wanted to do it better which would've eaten up couple of hours, but sometimes things done in a hurry brings out appreciable results!. What do you say?