Monday's effort was my take on Giacomo Ceruti's 'Portrait of a Country Woman' dated 1730.
The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead) with pupil highlights done in Signo White Pen. The background, hair and garment have been painted with Japanese watercolor. The scarf, done in pencil, has a bit of colored pencil added from Caran d'Ache Supracolor IIs (gray and light blue).
In this drawing, the head ended up being cropped like an earlier one but this time because the face outline was done too high on the page for the full hairstyle. What I'm happiest with is the ear (shape and shading).
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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