Rose | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9"
I had intended to have a surprise for you all today… I filmed myself working on this drawing yesterday, talking about techniques, tricks, color theory, skin tone, anatomy of the face and all manner of things. To make a long story short, I now know that I have 457 bad blocks on my hard drive and damn if that video didn’t land squarely in the middle of them. More than 50% of the video is scrambled video or screeching audio.
“But Steve”, you say, “Why not just pull it from the camera again?”. Ha! I deleted it from the camera after import! And the best part is I never do that unless and until I know the imported files are safe and sound. Lesson learned.
I’ve no idea yet if any of its salvageable, but I’m doubting it. I’ll try another at some point once I’ve dealt with this troublesome Macbook.
3 responses so far ↓
1 PhilippeSysmans // Jan 27, 2009 at 9:44 am
that’s toooooo bad!!!! Thanks for the effort anyway!
The picture is really coming ’round exquisitely.. I discovered that your new drawings seem to be more realistic because your color plains seem to blend into one another better.. in your really old stuff, it were more planes next to each other.. i think it’s amazing how a great drawing artist like yourself can still grow and improve so fast!!
Keep up the excellent work man!
2 Teresa // Jan 27, 2009 at 10:48 am
20-30 layers? Yikes!
I’m fascinated by your working technique… you seem to finish up one area before moving onto the next, whereas so far I’ve pretty much done one layer of color at a time. Sorry to hear about the video …. now that would have been “tv” worth watching!!!
3 Tracey // Jan 27, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Darn I got so excited as I would love to see it. I love your work, the details are amazing, I can’t believe it is colored pencil! You capture such emotion and charm in your portraits and your technique is amazing.
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