Wax Bloom

A photo in bad lighting of more jacket, hair and more details in the face. I’ll have a better shot in the morning after my next go with it.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″

I didn’t make it into work today because I finally caught whatever it was thats been going around the office, spending most of the morning crashed out on the couch in front of the television. I started feeling substantially more human by this afternoon, so started on a new drawing.

This new one is a bit of a departure from my normal style as it incorporates the entire figure in the drawing. I’ll admit it feels a bit strange to be working on something where the face isn’t the main focus, but thats part of goal number five.

The reference photo was taken by my Mom of my daughter while she was playing outside and caught her in mid air as she was practicing her “jumpin”.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 7 x 14″

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Finished!

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Best viewed large.

Pastelbord is most certainly my surface of choice for any future work. The amount of layers the gritty surface will accept are tantamount to cheating when compared to whats possible with Illustration Board or Mi-Teintes paper. If you’ve never worked with the stuff, I highly recommend you give it a try.

I want to make a few more tweaks tomorrow morning, but here’s a photo of the piece almost finished, and in bad lighting.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

 Larger version.

More shirt:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Larger version. 

Hair is about finished, starting on the shirt:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Larger version. 

And another hour’s worth of hair:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Larger version.

An hour’s worth of drawing hair:

Nearly a complete face:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Small amount of progress this morning:

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″

Cut short by the subject requiring the workspace: