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.

Okay, time to show you what I’m currently, and I use this term loosely — working on. You can click it to enlarge (don’t worry, she not naked, her breasts have smilies on them.)

I’ve never been very good with using colored pencils for my drawings, I normally simply stick with my 4H, HB and 4B pencils and such so I don’t need to panic about what color to use ‘here or here, wait what about there?’ That’s also why my paintings always take so long.

But if you’re not going to challenge yourself from time to time it just gets dull. So I decided I’d throw a bit of color into this drawing, not too much (baby steps,) I haven’t even decided yet what colors to use for the rest of the drawing and it’s been sitting around for a month or two.

So every two weeks I add some shade or finish an arm and then put it away to daydream about all the drawings and paintings I will have finished by the time I’m 60 (about 5, I’d wager.)