Wax Bloom

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.

Jeans about done, all thats left now is the addition of the sidewalk. Next update should be the finished drawing!

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″ 

A better photo of last nights progress in daylight, with a bit more of the jeans finished.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″

Now with a leg and a foot, which makes jumping easier, so I hear.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″ 

Jacket about finished, and starting on the pants which I am trying really hard to make sure have a different texture and feel than the jacket.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″

 I also want to share this one to give you an idea of the scale of this piece, since several folks that have seen it in person have commented that they thought it was much larger, having only seen it online.

More progress on the jacket, along with the darkening I mentioned in the last update.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″ (detail) 

More jacket, but I need to tone down the highlights a bit in the shadowed part of the jacket.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″ 

A bit more from this afternoon: 

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″ 

I’m liking the way the light is coming together in this one.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″