Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawings by Corne Akkers

Cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Simone Simon

Sans titre – 18-06-16

Part of the sans titre series depicting Simone Simon, a French actress from the 1950s.

Surrealistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Ingrid Bergman

In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.

Nude – 07-06-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series. This one is all about the central piece of the figure, communicating with the negative space around it.

Nude – 03-06-16

Part of the roundism series but is marked by some kind of Man Ray photographical surrealism as well.

Cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing

Thermonucear goddess – 01-06-16 (sold)

I was visiting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Rotterdam, Netherlands together with colleague artist Julia Filament, when she saw an artistic lamp hanging from the ceiling in front of her nose.

Nude – 27-05-16

A drawing through which I succeeded to base my principles of my kind of cubism – roundism.

Nude – 25-05-16

Part of the roundism series. It’s almost realistic but still to be called styled in a cubistic way.

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Bettie Page – 20-05-16

Realistic pussycat graphite pencil drawing

Furia sunbathing – 16-05-16 (sold)

In retrospective this is an ode to my deceased cat who died in November 2016. This is her, reclining in the sun, a couple of months earlier, when she was still going strong.

Surrealistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

The last of the dutch elephants – 12-05-16

Sometimes they roam about the streets of beach town Scheveningen, part of The Hague, at the North Sea.

Nude – 06-05-16 (sold)

Roundism – 06-05-16 (sold)

Cubistic treescape graphite pencil drawing

The promise of spring – 01-05-16

A depiction of my love for the return of the sun and life in nature, symbolized by spring blossom.

Nude – 26-04-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series although it has surrealistic elements as well.

Tribute to Man Ray (Lee Miller) – 22-04-16 (sold)

A mixture of cubism, surrealism and art-deco that I made to honor Man Ray.

Bettie Page – 18-04-16 (sold)

A surrealistic graphite pencil drawing of Bettie Page, American pin-up and 1950s celebrity.

Nude – 13-04-16

Part of the roundism series, a continuation of the ‘birth of new cubism series’.

Nude – 08-04-16

Once in a while I want to do something else like this one.

impressionistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Nude – 06-04-16

A rather realistic looking nude of my favourite model, although she was subject to a certain degree of styling according to my principles of roundism.

Nude – 01-04-16

A graphite pencil drawing of my favourite model again in a slight roundistic way.

Nude – 25-03-16

A rather realistic drawing done in clairobscur of my favorite model in which I wanted to depict the shiny skin.

Meyendel – 22-03-16

My favourite part of the dunes at The Hague, Netherlands in cubistic forms.

Tree at Voorburg – 21-03-16

A deviation from the first Tree at Voorburg. This one has roundish shapes rather than straight.

Tree at Voorburg – 19-03-16

The first tree out of a series of 2 tree drawings.

Nude – 14-03-16 (sold)

A woman I met on deviantart posted explicite pictures and was asking for artists to paint / draw her. I asked for a decent one and this was the result.

Cubistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

Rotterdam – Delftshaven – 08-03-16 (sold)

After my drawing of Rotterdam – Coolhaven I wanted to do Delftshaven – another part of the old harbour area of Rotterdam but in a slight cubistic way.

Impressionistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

Rotterdam – Coolhaven – 02-03-16 (sold)

A rather impressionistic view on Coolhaven (part of the harbour of Rotterdam). I made this drawing inspired by a trip to Rotterdam when I passed by the Coolhaven and I lost a contact that day so I saw it quite blurry.