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Berries Again


I have been trying to draw this berry bush for a while now. The lighting conditions at the time of my walk usually prevent me from being able to draw this particular scene (the light in the morning shines directly into my eyes). Lucky for me, it was an overcast day.

That mood probably comes across in my other drawing of a tree in the parking lot. When I showed the drawing to my girlfriend, she thought I had visited a graveyard (that's a parking sign, not a headstone). I tried out something new here - a soft graphite stick and micron pen. I really like the variety of marks I was able to create with the graphite stick - but I had to be extra careful not to smear everything around.

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