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Entries from February 2009

“Emre at 8 Months”, Complete

February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Aaaaand done:

Colored pencil drawing of my son.
Emre at 8 Months | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Child Portraits · Colored Pencil · Completed Work

“Untitled”, Update #3

February 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Getting there…

In progress colored pencil portrait of my son Emre.
Untitled | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Child Portraits · Colored Pencil · Work In Progress

“Untitled”, Update #2

February 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

In progress colored pencil portrait of my son, Emre.
Untitled | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Child Portraits · Colored Pencil · Work In Progress

“Untitled”, Update #1

February 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments

Assuming Flickr’s weird DNS issues aren’t effecting the display of the image, here’s what I’ve been working on over the past few days:

In progress colored pencil portrait of my son.
Untitled | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12"

Though it appears that this is quite a lot of progress, its really only a few hours of work. The drawing itself is pretty small on the 9×12 surface so its going pretty quickly. I’ve not decided if I’ll leave it this way or crop it to a smaller size.

This is, of course, my son Emre shooting deadly rays of cuteness from his eyes. I took the reference photo of him in November in my studio while I was working on this drawing of him. As I worked, I would occasionally show him the drawing, and he would light up with a huge grin on his face (He does this with all of my drawings, now – he looooves to look at artwork). So, I grabbed the camera, got down on the floor with him and took several photos of him using the drawing as “smile bait”. This is the best of them all.

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Tags: Child Portraits · Colored Pencil · Work In Progress

“Ultranormal II”, Complete

February 14th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Colored pencil portrait of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Ultranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

I’m pretty happy with the way this one ended up, and I had a lot of fun doing it. Easily my new favorite!

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Completed Work · Portrait Study Group

“Ultranormal II”, Update #9

February 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Still a wee bit of work left to do on the tongue, but it wasn’t even half as difficult as I had thought it would be. I’ve no reason to believe that the next update won’t be the finished drawing.

In progress colored pencil portrait of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Utranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Portrait Study Group · Work In Progress

“Ultranormal II”, Update #8

February 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments

What do you mean I’m avoiding the tongue? Preposterous! Take your wild, reckless allegations to someone else’s blog!

In progress colored pencil portrait of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Ultranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Portrait Study Group · Work In Progress

“Ultranormal II”, Update #7

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

And now we enter that creepy stage where the drawing seems upset and impatient over the bottom half of its face missing…

In progress colored pencil drawing of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Ultranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Portrait Study Group · Work In Progress

“Ultranormal II”, Update #6

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Now with more forehead!

In progress colored pencil portrait of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Ultranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Portrait Study Group · Work In Progress

“Ultranormal II”, Update #5

February 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In progress colored pencil portrait of Kevin Lawver entitled Ultranormal II
Ultranormal II | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

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Tags: Adult Portraits · Colored Pencil · Portrait Study Group · Work In Progress