Rossignol

This is the original guy who served as the model for Lewis Rossignol's class that I viewed yesterday. I always like to change things up by picking a different model (thus Vonnegut), but this guy had SUCH a great face that I couldn't resist. I messed him up a bit—his nose should have been longer and bigger, and it's canting off a little bit to the left! but it's a fair likeness.

I played a bit with a background wash beforehand, and ended up with some ghost circle outlines from ink that I didn't move quickly enough, so I splashed some more ink around at the end, and did some random white circles like Deb Weiers does, so it would look like they were intentional.

"Smoker"—pencil, Uniball, Daler Rowney inks, Signo gel pen, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, about 9x12 inches.