then I got home and drew some more until I decided I'd better stop ....
I've tried to pay WAY more attention to value, and whilst I know I have room for improvement I do believe I'm making some progress.
I've been really flirting with color lately and am quite intrigued, yet I'm finding just a little . . . overwhelmed? with pastels, it just seems like maybe it's too much? probably just because I'm trying to learn drawing AND value AND color AND the medium of pastels AND other things too, I can't seem to get out of the gate. So I've started to fiddle a bit with colored pencils.
I read somewhere that, like pastels, it's a lot about the layering of colors. I decided, with middling success, to get black by repeated layering of blues and reds. This is my beginning shot. I think perhaps I've erred by using paper that's too smooth; I'm gonna have a hard time getting all my layers in. No matter; I'm discovering I really like these color pencils and I'm barely intimidated by them. I've gotta do it on the right type of paper though.
But first, let me repeat my mistakes for a while! I've taken this cool reference photo (well, HE took it, but):
and made this sketch from it:
and it's good! and I'm happy but I already know I can sketch and this part is easy, it's the NEXT part -- the value color shading thing -- that I get tripped up on but I'm REALLY trying to just go with it and see what happens so I just start coloring it on in ...
... and it's fun and looks good so far! It's a rainy day today and we'll see what kind of progress I make. I've AGAIN started on too-smooth paper, so I have limitations. This is probably to my benefit.
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