This time I tried to use my pastel pencils without a graphite outline. Instead, I did the sketch in a pale blue pastel. I'm pretty pleased with the result, even though everything is less sharp than I usually have it. But that's why they are pastels, right? :-)
I much enjoyed doing this one, and I tried to be bold and not use the felt smudging thingies (no idea what they are called, sorry!) so much.
I know her eyebrows are a bit extreme, but you will know by now that I can never resist doing extreme things with eyebrows :D. And Morgana is not supposed to look ordinary anyway.
This was fun. I'm going to do it again. Yay pastels!
6 comments:
my illustration teacher, the last time we met, ordered me not to use brownish shadows anymore, but to use coloured shadows. So I think your idea to use a blue pastel goes completely in agreement with my teacher's intention ^^
I like the colours here, really, especially the yellow strokes.
Well! Are you telling me I did something *right*, all by myself? :D That is good news!
I really have to tell myself to use colour that way. I used to think of shades (if I thought of them at all) as grey.
It makes me happy to think you like the pale strokes, too, because I had to stop myself from smoothing them out. They are bolder than usual for me, but it is good to be bold sometimes, right? :P I think they give the picture some relief, which works well, yay!
Yes, I think the interest procedes from the contrast between the blue part, in shadow, and the white-yellowish part, in light. Without one of those part the pastel would look flatter. Light and shadow make it rounder an livelier. :)
Yaaaaay for talent!
Also, that's some text you got up on the other blog. Where DO you find the time? lolz
*g*
I typed that on the train, days on end... That's why I thought I really should post it! It was in summer, and three days out of five, there was no Metro ;-).
I can't find it in me anymore to spend time on this sort of thing in the weekend, I'm afraid. It's either drawing or writing, and sometimes neither :(.
Glad you like that one, btw :).
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