It's absolutely roasting outside. I promise never again to claim it's too cold outside to…
KylieB Sitting On A Box
Back to the figure drawing with the inktense pencils today. I’ve been doing a lot of these during 2022 and I expect people are getting bored with them. I would have been back on the oil pastels doing another landscape or the 2022 annual self portrait but my white pastel is very worn down and close to the end of its life, so I’m waiting for some new pastels to arrive on the post before I head back down that road.
Anyway, it’s a second appearance today for Kylie B. I picked this pose because of the huge black shadow on and under her right thigh. At some point, the message will get through to me that huge shadows in source material and, in particular, lots of different shadows that I want to unify into one big dark shape, mean that I should be using markers or watercolours, not the inktense pencils.
Anyway, moving on, I started with charcoal grey in the darkest places, moving on to bark when things got slightly lighter. I added leaf green in lots of places, sometimes as a third darkest value and sometimes just to separate shapes. Finally, just as with Gabrielle, I added a bit of iris blue to some of the right facing surfaces. More blue was added after the first attempt at the painting had dried: there were places where there needed to be more distinction between shapes or outlining of the body.
Overall, this is a flop. It’s that big dark shadow in the bottom half, some of which is on the box, some on the left calf and some on the right thigh that doesn’t work. There are media where it’s ok to combine shadow shapes like this but inktense pencils aren’t one of them. Let’s move on. I might need a little break from the inktense pencils figure drawing.
Leave a Reply