Today's effort is a drawing based on Pierre-Auguste Cot's 'Portrait of a Young Woman' dated 1869.
The face/body have been drawn with mechanical pencil (HB lead primarily with some 2B lead), white Posca pen for the pupil highlights, and the areas surrounding the image were filled in by activated Caran d'Ache Supracolor II watercolor pencils with the beige from Japanese watercolors.
In drawing the face, I started with the ear first going down to the chin and then up to and around the head to complete the outline. Next, was the hand that took a number of tries. The first few resulted in fingers and a hand that were much too large for the face. This version is much better and the hand's pose--believable.
I also experimented with fringe, and with patterns in the various 'cloth' elements to suggest folds and the discrepancies in the connections of the pattern that result from one fold to another. Doing shading and highlights of multiple folds is a practice I haven't yet done, but it is a to-do item.
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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