Mroolon

This is a charcoal drawing of my cat Mroolon. The name is a combination of two words: "mrooo" which is our cat's vocal answer to everything we say, and "rulon" that in polish means tube. Mroolon looks like that when he lays down. He is a sweetheart and good a companion.

The drawing was done from the photograph I took while the cat enjoyed a sunset at the backyard. A smudging property of charcoal gives the cat dirty appearence which reminds me how he looked when I found him. 

Soft Like Summer Rain

During memorial day weekend, besides the traditional barbecuing and enjoying the gorgeous weather – I drew. Using soft pastels, I made 3 portraits from photos. I was thinking about drawing from life but everyone was too busy to pose.
The last and 4^th portrait I sketched with charcoals. I found the photo of a beautiful model girl in a Cosmopolitan magazine. She was advertising Vidal Sassoon. Because I mentioned the source of my reference photo and because I’m not making any money on it, I shouldn't have a problem posting it here (it's for educational purposes only).
I like how I left the tanned colored paper untouched so that it imitates the girl’s skin tone. Incorporating the color of the paper into the subject saved me a lot of time. I was simply drawing the shaded areas with black and the highlights with white.

I felt so guilty that I was drawing from someone else's photograph that I had to add something completely mine to this post. Wild hare charcoal painting from my own photograph.