Tim Brown Portraits

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials AOC, is an American politician and activist, last November becoming the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress.
Faber Castell Polychromos on Strathmore grey toned paper, A4.

A recent commission for a returning customer, with a stipulation for a "colour cast", which I took to mean...well, this sort of thing. Not full-spectrum, but not black and white. Not too tricky to translate all the colours of the source photo into the monochrome "fifty shades of sepia" I used her...

....and the actual finished piece itself.

Just finished a brother and sister portrait commission, in graphite on drawing paper, and as it's safely in the hands of the delighted customer I can reveal it here on the world wide web.
First of all a progression video/slideshow to see how I did it....

Sorry, haven't posted in a while, been hard to find the time really.
So now I will try and make up for it with a full-on deluge of recent work and doodlings...
To start with here's a quick clip of a just completed Misty Copeland, the first African-American Female Principal Dancer with the prestig...

At long, long last I've got some prints to sell!
Just dipping my toe in the water with these so only a small handful of old favourite "Not fair!" to start with.
(size = 259x345mm, including 25mm border)
Price is £15 per copy plus p&p and buying is nice and easy: simply hit the BUY button at the ...

Just a little Aiden Turner sketch...

Just another sketch.....

Experimenting with some basic colour theory here, using what they call "split complementary" colours, that is to say the colours either side of the complementary colour. In this case I drew the chap in green, then checked the colour wheel to see that red is the complementary colour (i.e. opposite...