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.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Nicole Caulfield // Mar 3, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I love reading your posts when you first tried Pastelbord! The stuff is amazing isn’t it? What pencils are you using?
Love your portraits and really love that banner of heads at the top of your blog!
2 S.G. Chipman // Mar 3, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Thanks, Nicole! I use Prismacolor.
I absolutely love Pastelbord. To give credit where due, it was your work that inspired me to pick some up.
It probably sounds strange, but after arriving at work this morning, I noticed that my hands smelled like the stuff and it instilled in me a fierce urge to draw.
So yeah, I guess I’m a fan, hehe.
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