Basically an artisan by inclination, whilst wood is my first love I went the 'way of metal', as a professional engineer for more than 40yrs. I have always enjoyed pencil sketching, albeit only from photographs (so more a draughtsman really), for some 36yrs.
I added digital image manipulation (Photoshop) to my modest skill set and this has opened up a whole new 'creative' world.
As an aside the (other) guy in the picture attached is a famous Cuban musician, one Compay Segundo, as the picture is so full of life, so he was still working up to around 90yrs of age. Sadly he passed away at age 95yrs, but listen to his most famous track Chan Chan from the Buena Vista Social Club Album.
The various sketches and images posted are by way of examples, hope you enjoy viewing as I did doing? All of my Sketch Albums may be seen on my Facebook Page 'Sketches by Chris' .... original eh? A small confession, I cannot claim any credit for the PopArt image of my son and daughter, this was done as a gift for my daughters 30th birthday, by my nephew. My son also has artistist talent, visual and musical, clearly it's in the genes.