Tinted Charcoal from Derwent

I have been experimenting with these Tinted Charcoal Pencils from Derwent lately. I have bought them after seeing some amazing work from Graham Brace and David Cook.

This is my second attempt with them:

It's still a bit weird to work with them, but they look like a great medium for sketching.

Derwent also has some great tips in their website on how to work with Tinted Charcoal:

http://www.pencils.co.uk/en/gb/4388/a/187093/tinted-charcoal-ten-top-tips

Sunday Sketch on toned paper

This is my delayed Sunday sketch on toned paper, I'm trying to make one each week to practice my values and drawing skills. This is a sketch of more or less 45 mins of Miss Selina Kyle from Gotham series.

It was done on Clairefontaine Paint On Multi-Techniques Naturel paper, with a Cretacolor Negro Pencil and a white charcoal pencil (from koh-i-noor) for the highlights. I really like the effect and I will definitely be using this style for future portaits.

Update - Works in Progress

Maybe I'm being too ambitious, but I started three different drawings/paintings during these last weeks. Two of them are in watercolor pencils, since I'm trying to get the hang of the medium.

Here is the first landscape:

And the second one:

They are both inspired in drawings from the book "Water Soluble Pencils" by Carole Massey, she does some beautiful pieces with watercolor pencils.

And the other one is a pen drawing of a foo dog (I think that's what you call these statues), that's probably going to take forever to get done:

Hopefully I can finish at least two of them until the end of the year.

Sunday Sketch on toned paper

Decided to initiate a new "series", I'll try to make a sketch on toned paper each Sunday. It's seems quite good practice for getting values right. So, here is the first one...