Lately I’ve been a little obsessed with classic comedians, in particular Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis. And two weeks ago I bought 3 new canvasboards so of course I wanted to put them to good use right away and chose to start with Lucille Ball.
This sketch has been sitting on my (brand new) easel for a week and I am anxious to start painting it.

The thing is though, I would love to make a little art video of its process, but I mostly paint at night and I don’t have a good lamp to install in my new ‘creative corner’ yet, we have one somewhere and we sent out a search party but no luck yet.

Even though all I have right now is a sketch, I just really wanted to show you guys what I’m working on, or more specifically: hope to be working on soon! Just click it for a larger view. :)

Current stage of the drawing:

I’ve been learning a bit on how to draw hair using this tutorial because I’ve never been very good at drawing hair and so far I think that what I did in this drawing, the hair is much better than on my previous drawings, although the picture is a little too dark and maybe too small to actually get a good look at the hair (somehow I always notice these things after I already closed Photoshop) but hopefully you get the idea. :)

From left to right are the previous stages:
Stage 3 (sept. 10), stage 2 (sept. 7) and the 1st stage (sept. 6):

HB, 4B, 4H and mechanical pencils on white paper (A3 format.) As always, you can click it for enlargement.

I didn’t expect it to be finished this soon, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted yesterday with its progression but I figured it would at least take me another day or two.
And unlike other times, I’m perfectly happy with the result, although (yes, here it comes) there should’ve been some shading on the wall behind her head, I totally forgot and I didn’t see that until after I scanned it, but I can live with that because her nose isn’t too long - my trademark flaw in most portraits.

Almost finished with the drawing. The pic (clickable) turned out a little too dark I see now but I’m happy with the drawing’s progression, what an unsettling feeling!

First stage of the Helena Bonham Carter pencil drawing I started yesterday. There’s not much else to say about it right now, I like how it looks so far so I don’t have any self-criticism to apply to it yet. ;)

Happy to say I’ve finished the Holly Marie Combs drawing! Just click the image for a bigger view.

At first I had no clue as to what to put in the background - my imagination has dried up a bit lately - but my friend Iris helped me out and threw some keywords my way to use for inspiration and I’m pleased with the result.

The portrait itself has its imperfections and I could spend a good while pointing them out, but let’s not, that would only ruin it.
I think I captured Holly’s likeness, which was the idea - not as perfectly as I had hoped - but I’m still pleased with the drawing as a whole.

Used HB, 4H, 4B and mechanical pencils on white paper - A3 format. Also added to my gallery on tiogardubh.net.

Currently, I’m stuck with my original drawings, no idea where to put what and choosing its colors have me in a panic as well. But instead of doing nothing at all in the mean time, I set out to do a good old portrait again.
Lately I’ve been re-watching Charmed episodes, so I decided on drawing the stunning Holly Marie Combs, the cutest of the Charmed sisters.

This is the latest stage of the drawing (stage 3), where I’m at now:

Although, now that I look at it again, the eyes are a bit Alyssa Milano-ish. Okay, I’ll have to fix that, or just move on to an Alyssa drawing.

These are the previous stages, the second (left) and the first (right):

Still needs a lot of work and improvement, obviously. All images are clickable and have a more detailed description alongside an enlargement.
Stay tuned for the final result.