My Charcoal Drawing | Sea Turtle

This is my recent realistic charcoal drawing I would like to share with steemitians. Besides portraits and figurative drawings, animal is one of my favorite subjects.
I drew quite a number of wildlife animals but not the sea creatures.

I am always wondering how they will appear in a black and white charcoal drawing. With their unique shape and texture, swimming in a background of deep blue sea is an interesting subject to be explored.

For this sea turtle drawing, I used charcoal powder on A3 size Bristol white and it's took two days to be completed. I think the result is quite mesmerized.

Here is the process

I began with drew the outlines then shade the head area.

I used dark and grey tone to created the background depth.

To make it more intresting, I drew the shadow to create 3D vision.

Half way done.

Creating the front flipper textures.

Done.

I recorded the entire process in gif format video

Meterials

Charcoal powder
Watercolour brushes
Chinese brushes
Bristol drawing paper
Kneaded eraser
Eraser pen

Hope you like the process and the drawing I've share.
Will see again with new drawing soon.

Thanks

author / artist

@miorrizzuan