The Escape Artist, October 2010

Wanting to work on my portraiture and skills regarding detail and realism, I chose to draw this photo of my boyfriend:

This was my first version of "The Escape Artist":

As you can see, it's very loose and not detail-oriented at all, which was my original plan. So, I decided to try the same picture again, this time settling down to focus on the task at hand. This was the result, which I'm much happier with:

This time, I simply used graphite, rather than pen and ink. I really like the way the bricks turned out, even if the lines are a little bit crooked.