The last while I have been doing more portraits in pencil than I have been painting and there are more portraits to come. I’m not complaining, as I am thoroughly enjoying the process. I have posted these with the photographs supplied to me by the subjects Mum’s (with permission of course).
Photographic source material
Pencil sketch
A3, 160 gram artists sketch paper
Close-up #1
Close-up #2
Close-up #3
Close-up #4
Close-up #5
Close-up #6
Photographic source material
Pencil sketch
A3, 160 gram artists sketch paper
Close-up #1
Close-up #2
Close-up #3
Close-up #4
Close-up #5
Close-up #6
artbyeileen 
Cucks, When you were drawing the boy you said you learned things about the people you were drawing. What did you learn about this kid? Take care Andre
Tiny I think much like ‘reading’ a person we are having a conversation with, an artist can start ‘reading’ a sense of the persons character when they are drawing him or her. Especially if you sit for days drawing the portrait. Some of the children I have drawn I have met before, others not at all. I just feel like I know them better and have a sense of who they are once I have drawn them, especially with those I have met before.