Practice (6/20) with Update (6/21)

Update:

Some changes have been made to include adding clearer definition between the body and garment areas, painting the garment in, and tweaks to the face. This works much better!

Original Post:

The evening's practice was based on a painting by John William Godward titled 'A Fair Reflection' that he created sometime between the mid 1800s and early 1900s.

I've been particularly interested in Godward's paintings of the clothed female body-nude underneath that are partially revealed through areas of translucent fabric draping. By the way, fabric draping is one of his specialties and something he painted extraordinarily well.

This is my interpretation of his piece. The sketching was done with mechanical pencil (HB core), the piece painted with Japanese watercolors, and embellishments added with gold acrylic paint and white Posca Pen.

The entire body fits on the page...and that's an achievement for me. Aside from that, I'm also happy that there is the sense of that fabric translucency in this sketch-drawing.

It has been a very good learning effort!

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