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Practicing

Revision done 1/23/2022 (top photo) because the cleavage shading was off in terms of alignment with the garment.
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This practice piece has been done differently than prior drawings in that I'm working dark to light rather than the other way around. It started with a blue watercolor background that had dried overnight.

The image was sketched in pen and more watercolor was added for highlights and shading plus a layer of grey was added to the area outside the figure -- to better differentiate it from the figure.


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