Ebony drawing

Hello all!!

I bring to you another drawing!  This assignment for my drawing class was really enjoyable, and once again, it is the first time experimenting with this specific medium.  We used ebony pencils on coquil (or however you spell it) paper.  It really produced some beautiful results.  The ebony pencils are really similar to just graphite pencils, but the paper is really something else.  It is really toothy, so it shows a grainy texture that is just gorgeous.

Too bad you can get up close and personal to see the grainy texture.  I think that's what makes this medium so elegant and special.
Let me know what you think! :D

Dali- Recreated

Hello!

So recently in my drawing class, we were asked to choose a famous piece of artwork, recreate it, and change something about it.  So I chose Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Time" piece and made my own version called "Persistence of Hunger".

I had a lot of fun doing this.  It was interesting to draw a painting. 
My choice of medium were the pastel pencils.  I've grown really fond of these pastels ever since I've been introduced to them in the beginning of the semester.

Here's the original piece:

Constructive criticism welcomed!

Self Portrait

In my Drawing 1 class, our first assignment was to create a self-portrait using colored pastel pencils.  I have never used this specific medium before, so I was very nervous.  I decided to choose a neutral dark gray canton mi tientes paper to use as my background, because the photo I was going to use had a lot of dark cast shadows.  I honestly was not sure of how my results would turn out in the end, but I am quite pleased with the outcome.  Although the portrait overall does not look that similar to the real me, I'm still glad I was able to pull through after the many long days of working with this messy medium (the pastels are similar to chalk and are really dusty, getting all over my belongings and my face!). My biggest downfall was having to put up with how much the pastels fade.  Let's say one day I really saturate one section, and the next day when I return to draw my portrait, I find that the very saturated section I just worked on was not as saturated as the day before.  I just have to keep reapplying the color, and it was getting very annoying!

Well here it is!!

 Here's another landscape piece we were doing in class at the same time with the same medium.  Can you guess where it is? haha



Quality isn't the best since I just used my camera to take a photo of the pieces.

I love hearing constructive criticism and comments!! :]