Wax Bloom

Initial layers for her hair:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 14″ 

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The quality of the scan in the last post was really bugging me, so after working a bit longer on it I took a photo – even a photo in poor lighting is better than what that scanner is capable of producing.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 14″ 

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Many more layers on the face, but still a crappy scan that doesn’t convey the luminosity of the drawing. I’ll have a better image in the morning now that I’ve found the camera.

Colored Pencil on Pastelboard, 8 x 14″ (detail) 

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A detail of a drawing I started over the weekend.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 14″ (detail)

This one is along the same lines as “Jump!“, from a photo taken a few moments before the reference photo for that one. I liked this one because the light is coming directly from Clara’s right in this one, rather than behind, and there were a few things I learned while drawing the coat in the last one that I want to get right in this one.

This one is 8 x 14″, so this detail of her face is about 2 x 1.5″ – its a scan because I couldn’t find the camera, and looks better in person. The colors sort of desaturated in the scan.

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