Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Green Eyes - Progress 2

Here's a small update. I'm a little nervous with the skin tone and thought about going back to graphite. But I'm not, I'm sticking with it. I also realized that I have to use a lighter graphite pencil when drawing the line drawing. I may actually use a Peach color Colored Pencil to the line drawing on my next portrait.

For eye itself, I used Dark Green, Lime Peel, and Olive Green. For the skin tone, I used Light Peach, Peach, Light Umber, and Sienna Brown. I'm going to be building my layers slowly. I'm not sure if I'll be burnishing or not. I'm using a circulism technique. More to come soon....

"Pain" 9 x 12 Graphite on Strathmore 300 Bristol Smooth paper

 It's been awhile... I started a new drawing tonight.  I'm calling this "Pain" it's 9 x 12 graphite on Strathmore 300 ...