Needless contrast is my fetish.

Ohhh yeah.

charcoal, it fights you. Better for large-scale, as it looses some of it's inefficiencies from a distance. The level of darkness over the right shoulder, I would carry up and around the side of the face, leaving a light halo of light around it. Either that, or cut this character out with a clean edge and place them onto something more flat and graphic, that could took really cool. Either way, you got some cool oldguyface outta this

Yeah. Charcoal and I have been mortal enemies, mostly because I do tend to work small and I like making fine, sharp points in my work. This is pretty much the exact opposite as to how charcoal works. Those would be pretty damn cool. I might try to cut it out and place it on a more graphic surface, if I remember to do so.

Thanks.

is that dumbledore or Gandalf?

It's mostly just some old person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIMoQHpvFQQ