Last night's practice was doing a watercolor face to figure out skin tone color-mixing for a new piece I'm working on. That new piece may end up being done with acrylics due to the challenges with detail work in watercolors.
Tonight's effort is a fun drawing of a face with my new Blackwing (Matte Black) pencil and mechanical pencil (HB lead). Additional tools used were a PenTouch Gold Pen for the caps on the teeth and a Signo White Pen for pupil and teeth highlights. The background, clothing, hat, and ornamentation has been done with watercolor. The grey shirt is not uniform in color, but hopefully the eye isn't drawn to that but rather is drawn to the face first followed by the hat and/or beadwork.
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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