Art today. Lots of art, I think.

[robertsloan2]

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[elialshadowpine]

Oooh. That raven is GORGEOUS.

[robertsloan2]

Thank you! I had so much fun doing it. That one is entirely freehand with the scratcher. Like pen sketching, I scratch-sketched and then detailed over it rather than penciling first the way I did on the peacock.

[athenagrey]

Color pencil on black paper--I've done that and it came out incredibly luminous. We used white pencil first to establish a greyscale, and then worked the colors over it. I had no idea that it was anything real. It was a technique from a workshop on drawing and coloring mandalas, and we worked with very bright and simple colors. Just the primaries and C/M/Y if I recall correctly.

[robertsloan2]

Ooh, that'd work too! Sketch the highlights in first for a grayscale and then work over them. I tried it years before and wasn't satisfied with how some of the colors came out, they looked too dark and sometimes faded out entirely. But that'd make even the more transparent colors work! Thank you!

[ilyanme]

I like the raven drawing, too. It makes me think of Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven". :)

[robertsloan2]

Thank you! It did me too, and I did another one based on "Raven" yesterday. I didn't even post everything I've done! More to come.