Saturday 4 September 2010

Afternoon Snooze

Medium: Graphite (leads 2B, B, F, 3H, 6H 7H)
Size: A2 (594mm x 420mm)
Paper: Goldline Bristol board pad 220gsm
Duration: 10 hrs

This is the first of three commission sketches in graphite of two brothers.

This one was really challenging, firstly, as I had to work from a very low quality photo and secondly the light of the subject was in shadow under a canopy with a light cast shadow. Patience has purserved as I found tones I never thought a hard pencil could go to. The detail in this particular sketch, especially on the different coloured bands of the blanket kept me real busy!

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