Melissa Cooke | Graphite Artist 

These are phenomenal, beautiful pieces of art! I LOVE 'em all!

Wow! I would never of thought about drawing this way! Simply amazing Melissa!!

Absolutely amazing art work. Keep up the good work. Very impressive indeed

Awesome work! Please take care with the graphite particulates, though. That stuff can wreak havok on your health if you breathe it in.

Great work! I do charcoal work and pencil but never thought to use just graphite. Looks Picture quality and the love for what you do, shows in your work!

From the beginning u can tell the artist chooses a unique point of you. She most certainly worked on accepting her nose shape as we see from the angle she took on most her creations.

From MN great work Melissa

Bonjour.!! Trés beaux travail !!! J adore !

Beautifully inspiring ❤

You had a studio before discovering this technique?

Hi I crush the mineral graphite into my Sumi ink painting for interesting glitter, from the mineral aka plumbago. I love the large scale ones done here and one-day wish to do a large scale piece. Beautiful work, lovely family.

Beautiful artist.....

Your work in phenomenal. Thank you for sharing your gift and your passions with the world. Where do you find paper that large?

Freaking amazing work!

Ahhhmazing! What a lucky man

Great work!

You are the real artist👍

Anyone who dislikes this, I'd like to ask what is "creativity"? I bet you would struggle to answer me. Photorealism IS art, deal with it!

I have always dreamed of drawing large graphite portraits. What is potentially the best material to draw on? Also I always wanted to draw on walls, but how do u preserve it?

What cloth to draw?

Love it!👍😁

Love it 😍

Ausome art madam 🙏🏻 on what paper quality you use for doing graphite sketch ?

Awesome work

Wow that's amazing. I always hope that I will be a mother someday. 😇😊

Powerful work dear Melissa, i just want it to how is possible to fix the graphite work with Non toxic spry? Thank you

Which graphite powder are you using?

How do you fix the graphite to the paper????

Hi superb work question are you drawing on canvas?

Wow!

Marvelous

Are you fing kidding me!! Omg I need her to teach me!

Very nice work! Good video. Thanks @Melisscooke !

Your Art,s is beautiful 👏👌

Wow.... those hands

Excellent work. 🤔 However, is this drawing or an unconditional form of painting? I didn't see any pencil in sight. 🤨

How is your work framed, may I please ask?

Thank you, Lucy M., for sharing this with me. Inspiring.

Was that the art institute turtle taped to the wall at the beginning?

Does it keep on canvas the graphite?

What type of graphite powder does she use

Amazing! For large scale work do you use projector for sketching?

wow😍

Could you please tell me what paper you use for your work.

1:51 Love the way she uses that graphite powder to quickly get those cool tones and gradients down.

Ozzzzammm mam just say is a big waw. Mam do u use pancil dust?? M also want to learn realistic pencil art But i cant give highlight on my art Or i dont have idea how can i starts

Superb drawing! Very realistic.

What kind of brush is that!

A Lovely beauty mum 😘 a very Nice graphite art work 😎👍🎨

arte nariz...suave!

That nose is positively majestic.

Ouuu ok I see you

You're so cool 😎

Ll u help me mam

I'm Brandon Cooke lol

I have serious respect with a hint of jealousy

Great More floating heads

Any proud Artist here in comment section?

she's a true artist because her nose is reflected in the noses of the subject in the piece... watch....

What a totally interesting nose she has. Nice to see a real one, an unusual one, an accepted one.

H E L P ... I'm looking on youtube to find out if I can draw with graphite on professional wood panels that have a white surface? I do inexpensive graphite portraits on good quality paper, but many of my customers do not have their drawings professionally framed but do it themselves. That bothers me because I want my work to be archival. The questions are: Can I do a photo realism style with lots of flesh detailed shading but on professional white wood panels instead of high quality drawing paper? Will the graphite adhere to the wood surface and thus become archival? If so, what would be the best way to seal the drawing to insure it might not flake off in the future? H E L P

Does she use grid method to get such accurate proportions?

her nose is very peculiar

Random... But are we related? Lol

Ah, pero yo quiero saber la historia detrás de ese Condorito...

hmm....she taken photography, and doing what with it...? or projects of an image? drawing?

You might want to use a mask

"she's a terrible artist" people who live in ohio

Is copying 2D to 2D really art?

Photorealism isn't true art, FACT

Narcissism at its best