Little Jeanie

I don't use to draw a lot of human figures so this one was a real challenge for me. I decided to upload the painting although I see that the dress folds are not right. I guess the lines next to her right knee should go forward. With watercolors I suppose to start from the beginning or live with it. I decided to live with it for a while  .
The speed painting process of this picture is on YouTube

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.