It has been over a year since I have last completed a drawing.  As shown below, I have either lost interest, messed up, or found some other reason to not finish every drawing I have started since Jeremy.  I am currently trying new techniques to bring some consistency and speed to my drawing process.  Any advice would be welcome.

I'm pretty excited about this drawing.  Hopefully I will get to finish it.  This drawing is from another photograph by Richard Avedon, so it already has plenty of potential.  Check back in the next couple of months, and maybe I will have it completed.

This could have ended up being a nice picture, but I left it overnight in my truck, and the South Texas humidity wrinkled the paper.  The portrait would have been of Grace Kelly, wearing a tiara and looking extremely elegant.

This was going to be a picture of a rodeo stock contractor from Alamosa, TX, originally photographed by Richard Avedon.  The left eye needs to be moved more to the left, and the nose may be slanted too.  At  this point, it is too late to fix it.  With my next drawing, I will draw the whole face real lightly before putting in the dark spots.  This seems to be what most people do anyway.

This drawing was an exercise in speed.  I wanted to see how much I could draw before I got tired.  It's not a bad picture at all, but it does not really give any insight into the subject.  It is a photo of Jessica Simpson, who is very pretty, but she's just smiling for the camera.

I thought the eyes were a little crooked, so I got silly and tried to draw the rest with a pencil.  Looking back, they're probably good enough to maintain the illusion.  No picture is perfect, so I probably should have just went with it.  It is a picture of Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass, playing his mandolin.  I might do this drawing again, because he's a pretty awesome guy.

More to come, because that's the way it goes...