[artwork] "Lord Cutler Beckett", G
Title: "Lord Cutler Beckett"
by lineae
Rating: G
Disclaimer: No harm meant, no money made. The boys just kindly allow me to draw them from time to time. ;)
"Lord Cutler Beckett"
Colour pencils/chalk on black cardboard, digitally signed
Another random drawble done while playing with art supplies - and no idea why it was Lord Cutler Beckett who wanted his portrait drawn. He's certainly not among my regular muses...
Artist's blurb: I remember that as a kid it took me a while to understand why there were white pencils in every box I ever got. And when you work mostly with graphite pencils, drawing on black paper doesn't make much sense. Even now that I've understood the use of white pencils and am using coloured paper - drawing with white (or coloured) pencils on dark paper is still different from working with graphite on white paper.
The reason is simple: With a pencil, you draw the outlines and you shade the dark areas of a drawing. With white pencils on dark background, you highlight certain areas and leave the shaded areas dark. If, like me, you have been shading things for years and have taught yourself which areas of a drawing will have to be shadowy to look like a three-dimensional body, it's very difficult to suddenly think in the "negative" and find the right amount of highlighting instead of shading.
This drawing reflects that, I think. And I admit that there's room for improvement. The chalks don't blend well on that paper, and it'll take practice to get things to look right on black paper. Oh well. At least the contrast of the white cravat on black paper looks nice. ;)
by lineae
Rating: G
Disclaimer: No harm meant, no money made. The boys just kindly allow me to draw them from time to time. ;)
"Lord Cutler Beckett"
Colour pencils/chalk on black cardboard, digitally signed
Another random drawble done while playing with art supplies - and no idea why it was Lord Cutler Beckett who wanted his portrait drawn. He's certainly not among my regular muses...
Artist's blurb: I remember that as a kid it took me a while to understand why there were white pencils in every box I ever got. And when you work mostly with graphite pencils, drawing on black paper doesn't make much sense. Even now that I've understood the use of white pencils and am using coloured paper - drawing with white (or coloured) pencils on dark paper is still different from working with graphite on white paper.
The reason is simple: With a pencil, you draw the outlines and you shade the dark areas of a drawing. With white pencils on dark background, you highlight certain areas and leave the shaded areas dark. If, like me, you have been shading things for years and have taught yourself which areas of a drawing will have to be shadowy to look like a three-dimensional body, it's very difficult to suddenly think in the "negative" and find the right amount of highlighting instead of shading.
This drawing reflects that, I think. And I admit that there's room for improvement. The chalks don't blend well on that paper, and it'll take practice to get things to look right on black paper. Oh well. At least the contrast of the white cravat on black paper looks nice. ;)