Portrait of 'Alde'

[Jimmie Arroyo]

David's charcoals inspired me to try it again, and this time, I'm actually very happy with the results. It didn't start too well, though; it was technically okay, but lifeless, boring, and blah (for lack of a better word). Then when I was thinking of trashing it, I figured I'd play with it for practice. As I was doing the 'hatching', I thought "Hey, this looks alright". I continued and figured it was worth saving. Near the end, I thought, "This actually looks pretty good". I'm glad I stuck with it and may have finally found my style with the charcoals, until the next one of course.

This was done on skyblue Canson 18" x 14". The brand of charcoal pencils were General and the white is a pastel pencil from Faber-Castell. Thanks for looking.