The sketch I posted yesterday, I've been working on today. It is based on Rossetti's "Proserpine" dated 1877 and is now done.
The sketch has been painted with acrylic paint including glazes using the same. The pupils were filled in by black Muji pen, and the white highlight was made with a Signo pen.
I like how the ivy and its background creates interest, the pomegranate and her hand holding it, and her mouth/lips that look closer to Rossetti's muse who modeled for his piece. The only thing I may change in time is to add strokes in the hair to show its waviness. With or without them, I'm satisfied!
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
Your use of graphite, matte color, and contrast is beautiful!
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