I started two years ago. I was already drawing, but nothing serious. Once I saw a tutorial on how to draw Gordon Ramsey realistically. And I thougt: "Why not?"

I didn't have fancy drawing stuff. Just an earerser and a few pencil a found lying around. With that, I started.

And this was the result!

It is defenitly not the best thing I ever did, but it made me see that I was perfectly capable of drawing person in a realistic way. Especially when people complimented me on this.

You can see the pencil stripes everywhere. I didn't have charcoal at that time. But it didn't turn out that bad.