My Art Journal

Current waiting list (I'm making progress finally, have dropped the list a fair bit)

- A4 graphite horse head/neck study

- A3 pastel horse head/neck study

- A4 pastel horse head/neck study

- 3 x A5 graphite horse head/neck studies of different angles

- 2 x A4 pastel horse head/neck study

- Multiple pastels of dog, horse, cat, bird, fish...

You do some amazing work!! It makes me want to get back into drawing!

Lovely soft expression, you captured it really well.

Very interesting, thanks for showing the progress as you go! Great work.

This one is the latest, horse in graphite for a fellow forumite. I still have a few bits to alter, as it's not detailed enough as yet, but it's a start. Will have to get a clearer photo, my scanner is not happy with me at the moment so the image is blurred slightly.

I love love love this last one you did! =)

I have a quick question for you. =) I've been experimenting around with using charcoal for drawings for a while now, and how do you get such fine detailing with it? I can't get fine details to save my life. I love drawing in charcoal, I just have an awful time with the finer details. I use both charcoal sticks and pencils without any luck, even with a sharp tip and light hand. You can see my latest works in my art thread to see what I mean. =/

The above drawing is in graphite pencil not charcoal, so I can get finer detil in that medium. However in the two drawings I posted of the 2 horses, and the dog, they were in charcoal. I use Derwent charcoal pencils which come in soft, medium and hard so you can get varying degrees of detail using that. Then for the larger/smoother areas, I like to use charcoal sticks. The ones that I use are Coates Willow Charcoal 5-8mm. So they are tiny sticks but quite hardly and go onto the paper beautifully, as well as being able to get a reasonable degree of detail with them.

The latest drawing subject. A3 head study in pastel.

Last two days progress. I'm getting faster! Have advertised in a vet surgery and within a week I've picked up 7 expressions on interest.

YOU ARE AMAZING!

I love the very first photo. I wish I had your talent.