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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.


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