Colour pencils

I love charcoal/conte works. Recently, I'm in love with Trios crayons works. I also like to use toned paper, especially the process of toning the papers brings my mood warming up. :-)

This one, I toned the paper with Acrylic paint, blue grey with a bit of orange. Then I used Stabilo's blue, brown, General's charcoal pencil, and Wolfits' white pencil. The image was borrowed from here; http://ewoud57.deviantart.com/art/Statue-199811619

get your pencil sharpen to be ready...

 This morning, the model was lilly, who is one of scarce asian feature model. I like her, she pose very well so not make me bored.

I'm especially happy with 10 minutes poses, somehow look like three grace to me, one has no face tho... Ha-ha.

Afternoon model was Simon. He's a great model for foreshortening, 'caz he often poses like yoga or some sort. And today's title, be ready thing, the reason why. I used an unsharpened black (conte?) pencil for afternoon switching from Prisma colour pencils, and it was very difficult to control... look below.

 The lead part of the pencil is about 4 mm diameter, this drawing was done on about 12' x 18' size. So 4 mm discrepancy is huge enough to make my drawing not resemble to the model.  In the end, took longer to articulate the contour line... This was a good lesson for myself to remind me to make my weapons sharp all the time...