The face on this figure was stretched in a weird way. I am happy to say that the whole pose fit onto the page - I think I just need to add a little more clarity to my lines to describe the scene. Maybe it's as simple as darkening the contour lines or using a light pencil for gesture lines. Somewhere between slow, methodical measurement and quick gesturing is the perfect pace for these drawings. If I keep trying, I will eventually figure it out.
Old school pen and ink. I haven't used a crow quill pen since high school - and, even then, I remember struggling to get it to work. This time, I thought I would try to create something using only cross-hatching. The prompt word today is "bait". This word took me into a lot of different ideas, but the one I ultimately landed on is based on the will-o-wisp. In my head, I imagined glowing orbs in front of a copse of swamp trees all created with layers of cross-hatching. Things had to be scaled back a bit. There are still two trees in the background if you look hard enough. Success? Sort of. It forced me to use a different kind of pen and, in doing so, made me want to keep going and get better with it.
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