Character of Age

Youth has its beauty , smooth tones, elegance and grace. As we age these traits change and become the marks of our life. Gone are the smooth tones , replaced by work, a lifetime of experience. Our elegance remains but is wiser in its appearance. Many do not do manual labor but these drawings or of those that do not sit behind a desk and order people to work these are those that work.


Years of toil in the fields. Growing from the earth.Even he has that woren look of time spent in the earth, Hands are worn, and face has a look of seeing beyond the desk.

Some sit upon the streets and watch and are seldom seen by those that say they rule the world. A good smoke and a look forward can be all one gets



A character near the wharf

Hands no matter what age can show much, Full of character and possibility

Female Form

The female, woman is to me the best for delicate, expressive emotion. I do not take anything away from the male form but a woman has a magical quality about her looks. The hair, expression is more open. More expressive. She can be strong , tender, wild and crazy. To me she is able to demonstrate all the emotion without fear. But this is just my opinion.


Marie is the third in a series of drawings of her. This is the best in my view if her. I tried ti capture the youth and sensual look. Her lips seem larger but then she has that look about her. The long hair and smile just stand out with her.

Justine is one of my favorites. I like the look of it the playful quality.

Susan who carries that sensual quality at all times. The pose was to enhance that feel and look. A kind of light teasing quality without revealing to much.

Cassandra is my favorite drawing, Everything seemed to fall into place while drawing. I had little difficulty is do this drawing. The picture I worked from was of her the moment after changing a light bulb coming down from a chair. Their was something about the look of her that gave me this idea to draw.

Jazz Musicians

This is an earlier drawing when I was working out the style I draw in these days. Cloth is always something I like to draw and it adds good detail to the design and feel of the drawing. the shading behind all the drawings is to ground them and add more to the effect.

The look of the musician is what got me to draw him.

Jazz musician are always good subject to draw. Capturing the feel and emotion between sets or maybe while rehearsing. Their emotion is part of their music as they play

Steven Tyler

In this one It was necessary to show Tyler singing. He has the dramatic movement in his stage performance. Plus he always has scarfs and bellowing out his tunes. In this one I am not sure the drawing really looks like him, but most believe it reminds them of him, Again this drawing may change to something new. I ask again What do you think?

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz was fun to do. I took this from and album cover, I really liked the hair and glasses.

Keith Richards

One can not talk about The rolling Stones with out Richards. His face bares the years of Rock n Roll. So my drawing dealt with that just a portrait of him.
My style of drawing is not complete. Kind of like interactive drawing. There is enough of the drawing there for you to finish. It adds to the effect of the emotion of the drawing leaving empty spaces

Mick Jagger

The second in this series Mick Jagger. Some have said it resembles him and others are not sure. What do you think? I am curious. This is the drawing as is for now but may be drawn again. I did not want to draw the standard singing pose. I wanted something different. In the end the collection of drawings will hang together and I was looking for different looks in each person.

Musicians

I began this series as a request from a friend that is really into music from the 60's and 70's. The first of this series is Jimi Hendrix. Probably the most recognized of the drawings so far. the list was to be of 7 but has grown into nearly 15 so far. Even I began wanting to add others since I felt there are more musicians i like to see in the series.