"Portrait" by Jenny Liang

Drawing from a reference photo- Chinese actor Chen sicheng.

Portrait Study

Female Figure Study

Portrait Study

Male Figure Study

Portrait Study

Reading

Portrait Study

Charcoal Study

Charcoal study

Can you see the difference between the two drawings? I use my finger to reduce the edge of the charcoal drawing and creat gray value of the tone.

Charcoal Study

Where is my key ?

The scene I caught in Shenzhen, China. The lady is trying to find her key or phone when on a morning rush.

Mom and Baby Study

It's been five months in China and I didn't have time and chance to paint and draw. I thought that I might forget how to draw, but when I pick up the willow charcoal which I got from China, I just can't stop.

Lady Study

Chinese Sanitation Worker

This properly the most common scene I saw in Shenzhen the village my daughter and I lived. Every morning, earlier than five o'clock, many sanitation workers in their green shirts and yellow straw hats were busy to clean the garbage around the village. They use their bare hands to grab the dirty things from the trash boxes around the village, then most of them were very eagerly try to search some empty bottles or cart boards and try to resell for little profits. For me it's kind shocked that they did not have any protection on their hands when everyday touching the dirty things. I can feel if they found more than a few plastic bottles they could not cover their happiness from their faces and to keep these belongings into their own bags as treasures. It's very good for the city that people are trying to recycle the plastic and paper materials, but the workers should have the basic knowledge of protecting themselves.

Let's Go

The image that I caught on my forth floor apartment which my daughter and I lived in Shenzhen, China. My daughter and I had been lived in the Shenzhen for five month . In the village we lived, there are more than ten thousand apartments and people are crowed there. Every morning I watched the different people from the apartment we were renting there. It's so amazing how busy people's life there in Shenzhen.