This song got stuck in my head somehow, and since I’ve had fun making these time-lapse videos, I had the idea to do a drawing based on the video working backwards from there.
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The main goal was to draw with the Primsacolor Col-Erase pencils of colour on the Strathore Toned Grey sketch paper.
The second goal was to practice hair, it’s quite tricky in color, I have found.
I took lessons with graphite, but I’m totally self-teaching myself how to draw in colour, so I’ve been over-saturating a lot of my reference photos on purpose, just to get used to mixing the extremes on paper.
My process has been to draw things in white/chalk as detailed as possible, then using a fixative to seal that, then draw in colour on top of that.
I’m sorry I missed recording that part on this one.
I also forgot to use the fixative, so this was a bit of a b-word to get through.
I also hated it with the grey background, but then loved it after the 2 dark layers as the background.
Lessons learned: (1) turn on the camera!
(2) don’t forget fixative after base white layer (3) beware with the paintbrush-edge effect on grey paper (at least not with a the drop shadow effect).