Kid Series - Shading evolution

My typical drawings are of female portraits. I will share more of these of the next couple weeks. But I have been asked on occasion to draw children. These are from different times and my shading style has changed from using the pencil tip to using graphite with a different painters brushes. This dry brush technique is extrememly time consuming but in the last drawing you can see how realistic the shading can get. The years of the drawings are 05, 09 ,10.

My busy schedule only gives me a few time a year where I can focus on drawing. So my progress is consistent but slow.

Sketchbook Work 2

Hey where the heck is everyone?! I feel I'm the only one visiting here... have you stopped painting?? C'mon and start posting again, I don't want to see the place get abandoned.
Xia, I'm missing your posts brother as well... hope you get back posting daily as you used to!

More from my sketchbook pages:

Sketchbook Work 1

Hey community, here are some of my sketch book works. Some of them were done during lectures at school (you know sometimes good ideas pop out unexpectedly!), others when I turn off Photoshop. Anyways, a friend of mine asked me for some traditional work... so here you go. Hope you like them, more to come.

Fantasy works:


Anatomy Studies:

15min sketch

It seems I dont have time enough to do some real paintings.