Smita Patil - charcoal pencil sketch

Drawn from a photo reference of a movie still. I used Camlin charcoal pencil (soft). 

I used a soft a paper to draw. The soft charcoal pencil moves smoothly on the paper and I don't face any problem in shading. However, every trial has its own problems. The paper being thin there is a possibility of it being torn. 
 

Mother and baby - charcoal pencil sketch

This morning's practice with Camlin charcoal pencil (soft pencil).
 

Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian freedom fighter, educator and publisher - charcoal pencil sketch

This is my charcoal pencil sketch  of Aruna Asaf Ali, an active participant of Indian Freedom Movement.  Indian educator and publisher.  Rest of the details can be had from Wikipedia.

(I love sketching with pencils. This was drawn with Biyanyo soft charcoal pencil. Experimenting with different pencils is very much thrilling)

Neerja Bhanot - pencil sketch

Neerja Bhanot - pencil sketch

Neerja Bhanot was an Indian head purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists from a terrorist organization during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986, just two days before her 23rd birthday.

Valathol Narayana Menon - charcoal pencil sketch.

Vallathol Narayana Menon was a poet in the Malayalam language. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer.

He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He also wrote against caste restriction, tyrannies and orthodoxies. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.

My humble tribute to Narayana Menon with my charcoal pencil sketch.

 

Vasant Desai, legendary composer - charcoal pencil sketch

 Tribute to Legendary composer 'Vasant Desai' on his birth anniversary - pencil sketch

Vasant Desai (1912–1975) was an Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score in V. Shantaram films like Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Vijay Bhatt's Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Sampoorna Ramayan (1961), Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi (1971) and Aashirwaad.

T. S. Soundaram Ramachandran - charcoal pencil sketch

 T. S. Soundaram Ramachandran (1904-1984) - charcoal pencil sketch

T.S. Soundaram was a physician, social reformer and politician. In the year 1962 she was awarded Padma Bhushan for her contribution towards social work. A commemorative postage stamp was issued on 2 October 2005.

(sketch drawn with Camlin charcoal pencil sketch (soft)