Portraits

I obviously enjoy drawing people most. And I love drawing portraits. That's why most of my freehand doodles are heads floating in space, but that's not the point I'm trying to get across. What I'm trying to say is that a lot of times innocent people become unaware victims of involountary modelling, whether it be at Starbucks or Stockholm's central station.

Sometimes Starbucks are pretty empty, at least on summer mornings, or maybe it's just a Warsaw thing. With no faces sticking around long enough, I just may end up doodling that mutated double-tailed mermaid from Starbucks' logo. (Yes, that fishy lady has two tails in case you haven't noticed before.)

Or some other faces I felt like drawing at the time.

But for better or worse, people will eventually come in the end.
Being interested in animation, I very much enjoy drawing in more stylized, cartoony style.
The following are based off actual people:

But I guess I do have the Florence Academy on the educational part of my CV so sometimes I try to make it more realistic, yet still stylized drawings; and sometimes I try to draw realistically but end up with cartoony anyways. Obviously I've got a lot to study and I can't pretend I don't. ;)

Speaking of school work, I copied two portrait Bargue plates at school during my first year. This is one of them, the unknown woman of Seine.

Sometimes, very rarely, I draw self-portraits. I made following quick (some 20-30 minutes) work yesterday when having an exhausting, very extended (in terms of time - it lasted a couple of hours) anxiety attack and was trying simply anything to refocus my attention.

They say that Photoshop is supposed to make people on the pictures pretty, I think there's something wrong with my version. ಠ_ಠ ;)

Blah, that's a downer way to end a post but I'm out of more pictures that I wanna submit, haha.
I guess good news is that I'm working on two bigger portrait projects - they're nowhere close to being finished yet, but hopefully at some point this winter I'll get them done. :)

Hope you liked it all, see you next time!

Pencil figure drawings

A few pencil drawings I did last trimester before I took a break from school for a bit. Sorry I'm not really gonna elaborate more on the drawings but I cought a cold and whatever I would write probably wouldn't make much sense anyway. ;)

Pencil on toned paper, 3 hours for each pose.

Pencil drawings

Few of my 2 hour ("short" ;)) poses from the Academy.

I wish I had more stuff from last trimester scanned, but I will scan them at some point!

Charcoal long poses

These are 4 out of 6 long pose drawings I've done so far at the Academy.

Each long pose is drawn with charcoal on a white 44x66cm sheet of paper and took ~75 hours (5 weeks, 3 hours a day) to make.

Madeleine (2nd long pose)




Mara (3rd long pose)




Aaron (4th long pose)




Evelina (5th long pose)

It's fun to watch them for me, I do feel like I've made progress at achieving a better sense of form and light effect, also, my technique has improved... or, should I say, I actually have a technique now, as opposed to what I had... or didn't have... before the Academy. ;)