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Not Tom Hiddleston

Drawn from a photo of the dashing English actor.  Barely a likeness but I'm pleased with it as progress in my portrait drawing ability. I ran out of time to work on it today; I may return to it at some point if I'm in the mood.

Red legged honeycreeper

Plaza de Espana

Just a quick scribbly sketch I drew while taking the weight off my feet during my Madrid trip.

Maybe or maybe not NYC

Belgian violinist

Following on from my last post, where I referred to the work of Luis Quintanilla, whose cross hatching interested me.  

I have two computer screens at work.  On my left screen I put up this picture from Flickr and on the right screen I had the image below, large size, so that I could try to emulate Luis' style as I drew.  I used a 2H pencil  It was a helpful exercise and I feel that I've gained a little incremental improvement in my sketching.