A study in Sherlock

Pretty obvious what I've been watching lately. Made his face a little too long, but oh well, it was a fun expression study.

Charcoal on pastel paper.
About 5-6 hours, or less
Screenshot from the TV series Sherlock used as reference

The last air bender

A few sketches for Katara, Aang, and Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender.
Medium: Pastel pencil and col-erase blue pencil

A little note about the pencils: Faber-Castell pastel pencil is the best so far. Derwent's pastel pencil kept breaking and jamming the pencil sharpener, Conte A Paris is too fat to be fed into a reuglar pencil sharpener, (not a big deal, got a knife), its texture is too coarse, felt like drawing with a burned piece of wood on concrete. Unfortunately the nearest store (Utrecht) that carries Faber Castell pastel pencil is 45 minutes away.

Also noticed FaberCastell's col-erase works great with charcoal and pastel pencil, even though it doesn't erase cleanly. Prismacolor's col-erase pencil gets erased really well, just like regular graphite, but it contains too much wax, and make it hard to go over with charcoal or pastel.