After all the dog drawing I needed a break last weekend but I'm back with…
Stephanie R
I’m finding it hard at the moment to get the time to paint but I’m determined to take advantage of any opportunities that come my way. I’m not going to spend my retirement watching day time quizzes on the telly. I got an opportunity this afternoon, so reached for the inktense pencils and picked this pose by Stephanie R, making her debut on this blog.
I copied the colour scheme from Wake Up Kevin, starting with a monotone drawing in bark, then adding in chilli red, Shiraz, iris blue, teal green and leaf green wherever I could see those colours in my source photo. And I strengthened and livened up some of the darks with deep indigo. I was worried that the amount of bark that I shaded in all over the photo might make things muddy but they generally came out OK. The legs underneath the book weren’t recognisable as part of the body after the first wetting because of a black of green, so I put more green over them and reset them.
But there are too many things about this one that I don’t like for it to be allowed anywhere near the shop window:
– the bit on the outline of the skull that points inwards near the eye has disappeared
– the legs now look like part of the body but that’s only because of the colour: the shapes look wrong
– the hair looks cut and pasted in
– the shadows on the arms are too hard-edged
– the hands, which looked OK in my initial drawing, have lost definition amid the brushwork
So, yeah, a flop this one.
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