All my figure drawing so far has been of naked females and there are a…
Candle
Back on the inktense pencils today. Got to keep all those plates spinning. Today’s model is Candle, making her debut on theses pages. Colours were deep indigo, bright blue, fuchsia, poppy red, leaf green and mustard.
I started with indigo in the darkest places, then moved onto the blue and red. I put red on the left facing lines and blue on the right facing. The green and fuchsia I put wherever I fancied and the mustard in the brightest areas. Finally I added a little red over the blues and blue over the reds, just to get the blues and reds closer to each other and not let things get too garish.
After putting all the pencil down, I ended up with this
Things look good at this stage. I’m wondering whether I should try some figure drawing with the coloured pencils. From a selfish point of view, this would relieve all my frustrations about having to stop earlier with the (inktense) pencils than I’d like to. On the other hand, I’d be frustrated to hell about not being able to dilute the pencils with water at the end.
Anyway, this was in inktense pencil, so I diluted the pencil marks and ended up with the painting that yo7 see at the top of this posts. If I was to be picky, I might wonder about how red the right nipple was, how little green there was in the thin shape at the top of the right thigh and about how things look a tiny bit out of proportion (bottom half looking big relative to top) but I’m happy overall and this is going up for sale.
In the words of the great David Brent, this is me on a seven.
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