A collection of my portrait work from over the last decade or so. I have been drawing since I was 5 years old, and my focus over time in my drawing has become realism. I enjoy challenging myself to see what emotion I can draw out of a page with the limited medium of a single pencil and blender stick. There is always a moment while drawing each portrait when the face moves from being a generic human to the individual I’m drawing. If that moment doesn’t come, I know to scrap the drawing and try again.