Trying Something Different

Today's drawing was done with a 2B pencil, a 4B pencil and a paper towel. My goal was to create a portrait drawing with more than the usual outlines and shapes. I spent my fifteen minutes building up tone with light pencil and smudging it with paper towel (in hindsight, I would rather use tissue for this).

It's a slow process - maybe not so well suited for short sessions. I enjoy the challenge. Maybe I'll learn something new from this way of working.

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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

Inktober Day 3 - "Bait"

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.

Rainbow Bisque

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