Amir.

My first Colour pencil portrait.
Definitely a learning experience, but all in all, i feel it came out well.

I think I will use a smoother paper next time, and I wasn't sure what I was doing with the blending.

Any help from you CP masters out there would be appreciated.

Tools used:
Faber Castell Polychromos
Experimental blending techniques...tissue, cloth, cotton pads etc...
Strathmore Bristol Vellum

Hope you like it.

That's pretty damn good Carl..teaming up with Manny eh?
His left eyelid looks slightly out.

Fantastic CARL!

I agree, this is a fantastic piece! First time?! Wow. You've got the skintone just right! I use FC polychromos and I like them, but not had the guts to do a portrait yet...only racehorses!
I know what you mean about getting the blending right. When I did a horse commission I started out on windsor and newton bristol and found it just didnt work, so I changed to a coarser cartridge paper and preferred it. I'm the other way around with graphite.

This has inspired me to try cp portraits! You should send it to Amir Khan via twitter!

Let us know if you get any feedback Carl,never worked for me with one i sent a few times but i remember Connor had great success with his Stephen Fry.

Beautiful job, Carl.


Mike

Nice work, Carl