Second term has wound up, and everyone is off on holiday for a few weeks. Thought I would show you the completed demonstration piece I created in class to explain techniques and process.
Our theme in second term was 'cute and furry' - with an emphasis towards Australian animals. In the second half we concentrated on using colour pencils (hue) supported by graphite pencil (tone). Additionally artists were requested to incorporate a background in some way. Either a background that had some detail and recession, or a coloured 'suggestion'. I chose to use the suggestion style of background.
The reference photo I used was one of my own, a shot taken of a swamp wallaby some years back when I was out hiking. The base outline was created freehand direct to the paper (no tracing). The work is on an A3 size sheet of Fabriano Artistico Hotpress 300gsm. Background was created using Graphitint pencil washes (Ivy & Indigo hues). The wallby also used both Graphitint in indigo and Derwent 4b watersoluble graphite washes to create a base under tone. Following this undertone wash, fur drawing completed using Staedtler Mars Karat colour pencils in the dry state, with supporting tone and line work in Staedtler Mars graphite pencils - F, HB, 2B and 2B.
He came out okay I think - it isn't anything deep and meaningful, just a cute portrait of a wallaby, but a satisfying result all the same.
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