Jackson's Amateur Art Prize - voting now open

If you like my pastel portrait of black eyed man you can now vote for it as part of the Jacksons amateur art prize: 
http://a.pgtb.me/18hRbz/kTTdL?w=48436281&e=124979533
Thank you for your support.

My recent pastel portraits

Both done with soft pastels and pastel pencils (Caran d'Ache, Faber-Castell Pitt) on Mi-Teintes paper.

Reference for both: sktchy app

Longlisted for Jackson's Open Art Prize

I'm very pleased to announce that my pastel drawing of "Dark eyed man" has been longlisted for Jackson’s Open Art Prize.

This means it got selected from 3100 applications and is one of the 410 that made it!

https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2016/04/15/joap-longlist-announced/

See page 10!

Gray coloured portrait on black paper

This is my recent pastel portrait. I had so much with this! I never managed to draw on black paper before, but after the course I somehow have better skills in capturing the values. Took me 12h to finish. 

Gray and white pastel pencils on black Canson Mi-Teintes paper. Reference is from Sktchy.

If you're interested in such a portrait of yourself or relatives/friends etc., don't hesitate to contact me.

Pastel Portrait

Another sktchy inspired portrait. It only took me 8 hours. I'm finally getting faster.

Sktchy Portraits

Thanks to the Sktchy app, I recently got a few portraits done. It's an enormous source of inspiration and I use it for learning purposes. I did all the portraits freehand and I try to draw different perspectives. Also I want to be more creative in using different media.

Here are the first three portraits:

Custom pastel portrait

Audrey Hepburn Portrait Drawing

I love to draw her. This is the first one I like so I’m going to frame this one and hang it in my studio. Kinda historic moment for me lool. 
Faber Castell Polychromos and pastel pencils, white pigment ink

Portrait and Figure Drawing Class

On the weekend I was in a portrait and figure drawing class! It was awesome - the teacher was great, I learned new techniques and I did quite well with life drawing in general. The only problem I have is measuring proportions. I simply don’t do it, I mostly draw contour lines first and most of the times the proportions are right. So the teacher taught me how to measure afterwards to reassure the correct proportions. I need a lot more practice, so I hope I find people willing to sit for me so I can draw (their face). These are some drawings I did during the class.

Head of a girl, master copy WIP

I’ve worked very long on this master copy. See the original here: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/william-adolphe-bouguereau/head-of-a-young-girl-1898

It's currently a WIP. Done with pastels.

Zooey Deschanel Pastel Portrait

I've done Zooey Deschanel in pastels. This is the first drawing that I'm proud of. It's not perfect of course, but I like how it turned out. It took me around 12 hours in total I guess.

First pastel portrait

My first portrait I did with pastels.