I decided to add this page to my website just before the Covid pandemic. To revive my dormant drawing skills, I believe the best way is to focus on head studies of people. This involves studying light and shade. All of the portraits here are relatives or of people I know.

I drew the derelict bottle oven scenes and sold them along with the dog portraits. This was some time ago before the outbreak of the pandemic. I have included them here.

Using pencil and charcoal in rendering the human figure takes away the colour. It demands that you not only focus on the medium, It gives you valuable lessons in light and shade. These lessons give head studies their realism.

The studies on this page can stand alone as finished products, they do not need the use of colour, It never ceases to amaze me the realism that can be acheived in drawing alone.

Through development, one can convey the personality and dynamics of the topic in drawing alone, done just by using lead graphite or charcoal sticks to create on a two-dimensional surface.