Thursday night art jam!
I started out by finishing OSWOA Raven Grackle after spending three days on it alternately frustrated and ready to turn it into colored pencil underpainting, but heartened and full of ideas on how to fix that would take time and patience. It has much glazing and many layers of color.
Yesterday I started a Graphitints realism piece on natural color Stonehenge paper:
ACEO Red Tailed Hawk finally needed some touches of Derwent Drawing Pencil to get the soft colors right, especially Wheat in the eye and a little Wheat and Terra Cotta to warm some of the feather areas. I love the detail in it. This was worth spending that much time on.
And after that was done I puttered for a while with no idea what to draw till I found a good landscape reference, noticed it had ducks and decided to keep them in. Graphite and white Derwent Drawing Pencil on gray Stonehenge paper:
ACEO Reflections Ducks was a lot of fun for me. I used about eight different hardnesses of graphite pencils to get the shading just right, and went into the water and sky with white Derwent Drawing Pencil to use the gray paper as a light midtone. It was neat getting detailed with this too and I like how the white duck pops out against the dark banks of the water.