She was striving to keep her unnecessary worrying under control.
Today I decided to give myself a challenge - use ONLY Stabilo pencils on a girl.
This makes for a limited palette since they only come in gray, black, red, orange, blue, brown, yellow and green. I use these pencils a lot since they are water soluble and great for little tweaks on my pictures.
Yellow may not make for an ideal skin tone but once the water and more layers were added she turned out better than I had anticipated. Although it was a big temptation to add some highlights with a white pen, I kept only to the 7 pencils and 2 paintbrushes.
Finished up by collaging her with some old ephemera on a book page.
Linking to Sunday Sketches,
Creative Every Day, and
Nice job you did with her!
ReplyDeleteOh I like this, great piece!
ReplyDeleteI'd say you succeeded beautifully. Love the old underwear ads too! ;-)
ReplyDeleteShe looks great but very concerned!
ReplyDeletelove this! good job.
ReplyDeletebeautiful face...and great choice for background elements :)
ReplyDeleteHey Michelle, She does look somewhat pensive. And who can blame her. With the news of the world I am sometimes worried too!
ReplyDeleteI love watching you but I think you know that.
Sandy
I think she is fantastic! That determined expression! And love the contrast against the ads - great concept. Thank you for your comment and congrats and thank you again for being part of Mandarin Orange Monday:)
ReplyDeleteStellar! The background papers are so perfect!
ReplyDeleteI love her and I love seeing the process! Great idea to use a background like that, it really adds to the piece.
ReplyDeleteAn amazing job using the limited palette! I think the girl's expression and the background are very well connected with each other! Well done! I really like seeing your process!
ReplyDeleteYour drawing is amazing and i love that quirky style :)
ReplyDeleteit's great to see how such things are drawn step by step.