Pencil Drawings
Yesterday the person who did an art demonstration before I did mine showed her portraits which she had drawn in pencil. It was very inspiring to me. When asked how she gets the tones blended so well, she said she just uses tiny pencil strokes and she has nine grades of both soft and hard pencils. She puts about 120 hours of work into each of her finished portraits.
Last night I spent a little time working with pencil. I have a picture of two deer that I like and I've been wondering if I could use the deer in an oil painting. Last night I sketched one deer, just to practice using pencil and doing shading and blending the way Wendy showed us that she did in her portrait work.
My deer has a sort of mythical quality to it, not quite a real deer, but the shading is coming along pretty well. I can't have everything right at once! I'll keep practicing.
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