Kate

July 2014

June 2015

I've tended to draw more male portraits than female, so I thought it was about time I sketched a female.  I've picked someone older as the older face has more interest from a sketching point of view (a beginner sketcher at least). I picked Kate Adie here.  The likeness isn't great but it's fairly decent from the point of view of realism I think (for my level of skill).  Most of my recent sketches have been either with a 2H or 6 H pencil. These are hard graphite which draw very feint lines. This time I began with a darker F pencil then filled in some parts with a 2H.  I'm rather pleased with the outcome.  It is certainly a massive improvement from my first portrait, of Tom Hardy, which I drew almost one year ago.