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Emmanuel Ronkin was an accomplished draughtsman. Everything he saw prompted him to take up his pencil and set it down on paper as a perfect composition. The quality of the paper did not matter to him; the main thing was to have a large space on which his hand might freely guide his charcoal. He had a gift for conveying, even on ordinary newsprint, subtle radiations of light, three-dimensional figures, nudes that seem to sing with the exhilaration of youth, their legs firmly planted on the ground, yet their eyes (closed as a rule) dreaming of the star-studded skies of Israel's nights.

But his main interest lay in the nude, the female form. All his young women have a subtle dreamy expression on their faces; what is remarkable is that the more sensual their bodies are, the more spiritual the expression on their faces.