Kate in Shadow
I was going to draw Merlin, the kitten, but he wouldn't hold still.
I would.
I'd been saving this sheet of black paper in my handbound journal for something...this moody dark piece seemed perfect.
I've seen so much lovely colored pencil work lately, I needed to play a bit myself...and I love both drawing and working on toned paper.
It's kind of interesting to work like this, because I was really just paying attention to the shape of this shadow or that highlight, and somehow till I got to the point of refining the details that was ALL I was doing. Not going for a likeness, per se, just getting shapes right...
You can tell I'm smiling, here, can't you? I pushed the color quite a bit, using black, white, crimson red, henna, orange, deco orange, beige, cream, and just a touch of slate blue, and emphasized the smile lines, which I earned, fair and square. The paper was a smooth black drawing paper--I don't remember the brand.