Sketched portrait of Herbert George H.G. Wells

A recent prompt for Sketch A Day was Well, so I sketched the portrait of Herbert George (H.G.) Wells using graphite pencils. I used to sketch to much into dark values, but I am getting better at it. H.G. Wells is an excellent English writer, who wrote The war of the world, The island of Dr Morreau, or Invisible man. I read those three, and need to catch up on his other books, especially Time Machine.

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I used my usual graphite pencils Jumbo 9000 on my sketchbook, and blended the graphite using my blending stumps. I used my Tombow mono zero eraser for the highlights. On my sketching today (not this one), I had to order new eraser recharges for it as I loaded the last one I had.

All portraits of famous or well known people, I have uploaded on the blog so far: Vinnie Jones as Bullet-Tooth Tony, Sharon Rooney from My Mad Fat Diary, Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Joe Strummer, Jimi Hendrix, Fern Brady, Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Benjamin Zephaniah, Sanjeev Bhaskar as DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan, Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher, Bill Skarsgård’s as The Crow, James May, Emily Campbell, and Henry Cavill.