MONALISA CHARCOAL DRAWING VERSION 2

Finally, I’m done with my 1st portrait of the year, another remake of the previous artwork. (All hail Da Vinci). Was tedious, took a month plus. Used charcoal pencils all the way on white pelican paper, hey! There’s no fun in making a remake of an artwork (Psst! unless the reward is too good to refuse). Can’t really say which was one was better, the previous or the new one, you decide.

CHARCOAL DRAWING OF MASTER YODA

Ever since I was a kid, been in love with anything sci-fi, from cartoons to movies, virtually anything. It inspires me quite a lot, heard about the next Starwars movie (coming up this December, don’t miss for the love of God!). So I decided to create something cool, saw a reference picture and I drew master Yoda, the green being, a.k.a Lord of Jedi knights. Took me virtually ten hours plus, used a 2B grade pencil for outline then hard, soft and medium charcoal pencils to shade on an A3 paper. Cool right?

CHARCOAL PENCIL ART OF 'NEYMAR'

This was my first ever made portrait using the grid system, I have always and will always be in love with free-hand sketch with ink. but you have to admit, grid does make everything easier. While searching for a reference photo,I came across an article on one of my favorite athlete, 'Neymar'. The star Brazilian soccer winger that currently plays for Barcelona, really liked the picture they used, I used charcoal pencil and a bit of 2B pencil on A3 paper. Was fun all the way, never did sold it, kept it for myself.

CATEGORY ARCHIVE: MICROPHONE ARTWORK PROGRESS REPORT

"MICROPHONE ARTWORK"

I was inspired on my birthday by a microphone reference image I saw in a newspaper, decided to test my skills as I so much love challenges. Lo and Behold....! a 3D art emerged. drew this free-hand on an A4 sketch pad with charcoal pencils. (You could almost grab and sing eh?)

CHARCOAL PENCIL ART REPLICA OF "MONA-LISA" PORTRAIT

I never ever thought the day would come whereby I would have to make a replica of a great artist’s artwork, not to mention the all-time greatest painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci. I was working in my art studio and then I overheard my step-grandma reminiscing her visit to France, Louvre museum to be exact. How she wished she could purchase the painting (like hell would that ever happen). So, I thought about making her a replica, monochrome form of course (it’s still killing me that I haven’t learnt painting yet). I got to work, took me a month due to my very busy schedule of teaching and working for my NYSC state magazine group, Ibadan, Nigeria. Used a combo of pencils and charcoal pencils, eventually I finished. Then my granddad saw how good it was and claimed it for himself (The Joker’s chuckle). Now I have to make another one, (sigh).

"CHARCOAL ART OF JOHNNY DEPP"

So after graduating from college, I just had to keep on practicing art even though the idea didn’t fair too greatly with my parents, (don’t want to make God angry by hiding your talent now, do you?) I was always a good cartoonist but evolving into human art wasn’t easy, portraits wasn’t easy, funny enough I never liked pencils, it showed flaws,  always preferred pens whereby you had to be perfect. But thanks to eBooks and videos, and of course almost daily practice coupled with support from friends and my lovely twin, I achieved my aim. This was my very first charcoal portrait, hadn’t even heard of kneaded eraser nor blending stump by that time. It’s always fun getting paid for what you love doing, it’s not called work but fun.