Russell Glenn Polfer

Russell Glenn Polfer I am a Traditional Artist. For most of my works I use ink, graphite, charcoal, pastel and occasionally watercolor. russellglennpolfer.com

My works are influenced by many factors including nature, human anatomy, role playing games and Christianity.

Curly hair takes a really long time to draw. I spent about 2 hours in total on this drawing and I spent at least an hour...
09/30/2025

Curly hair takes a really long time to draw.
I spent about 2 hours in total on this drawing and I spent at least an hour and a half on the hair alone.
Im not complaining though - I'm drawing a lot faster (and better). A year ago this same drawing would have taken a week

Tonight I'm seeing if I can take this fifty cent box of crayons beyond what most people can do with them. I've chosen th...
07/16/2025

Tonight I'm seeing if I can take this fifty cent box of crayons beyond what most people can do with them.
I've chosen this coloring book with works from Carlo Crivelli

06/30/2025

Son of the Morning

"Son of the Morning"12x18Pastel on strathmore charcoal paperfin
06/30/2025

"Son of the Morning"
12x18
Pastel on strathmore charcoal paper

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I finished the painting portion of "Son of the Morning".Ill make the signature video and framing tomorrow.This is what i...
06/28/2025

I finished the painting portion of "Son of the Morning".
Ill make the signature video and framing tomorrow.
This is what it looks like under three different lighting conditions, itll look better tomorrow in natural light

Checking how it looks under different lighting conditions.Im almost tempted to stop - it looks quite dramatic allready
06/26/2025

Checking how it looks under different lighting conditions.
Im almost tempted to stop - it looks quite dramatic allready

In the Japanese theatrical art of "Kabuki" all of the roles are performed by men and although I painted this character i...
06/20/2025

In the Japanese theatrical art of "Kabuki" all of the roles are performed by men and although I painted this character in my signature harlequin style I think I gave him enough masculin features to look like a kabuki actor

Many of my followers have requested that I paint something in color so Im working on a painting with my old pastels this...
06/15/2025

Many of my followers have requested that I paint something in color so Im working on a painting with my old pastels this time which im excited to do because I havent used them in about 15 years.
I'm using this 400ish year old painting by Caravaggio as my reference image.
I had to run the image through an enhancement app a few times to get the colors vibrant enough for me to see them.
I hope it doesn't look too weird

06/04/2025

"Angelic Moon"
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(Try and ignore the smudged charcoal on my nose at the end)

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