Friends of the HeART

My good friend, and art pal, Kristina and I watched a video by Pam Carriker where she demonstrates how to do a drawing in charcoal from a photograph. Whenever Kristina and I get together we always do a page in each other's art journal, so we decided to try doing a portrait of each other using Pam's technique. I'm quite proud how they both turned out.

Here's Kristina's drawing of me.

I wish you could see it in person. This scan doesn't show the subtleties of color and value very well. She did a great job!!

Here's my drawing of Kris.


The mouth really looks a lot like hers. The eyes aren't exactly right, but they're close. I like this one best, because I had such a young, pretty subject to draw :)

We had so much fun doing these. Kris used Conti crayon to draw hers and I used Conti charcoal pencils.