Rhian in Delusion Studio

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Rhian date: 10/00
media: black and white charcoal on Strathmore Artagian papers (steel grey)
dimensions: 11x14 inches

Commissioned character drawing. She took quite a lot of work. I decided to get fancy and work with black and white charcoal on grey paper - it's a nice combination, especially with the darker lighting that I wanted. But it took FOREVER to finish. Charcoal is a pretty forgiving medium, but it is also really messy and not very portable. This poor drawing got stepped on by my cat (I wanted to skin the cat), and when I tried to take it to gaming to work on it I was so freaked about someone stepping or sitting on it or getting charcoal everywhere or getting messed up in the car that I just didn't bother.

I had a horrible time with her hand, the flame, and the smoke. I did plenty of first sketches,
but transfering them to grey paper proved to be a very daunting task. My lighttable wouldn't work. Black graphite paper or white graphite paper wouldn't show up. I had to sketch this in freehand, which is tricky in itself because you have to get the anatomy right the first time - it's a bit of a crap shoot. I screwed up on some stuff, and there's nothing as frustrating as getting something shaded, realizing it doesn't work, and having to erase it and redo it. I ended up redoing her hands multiple times, redoing the smoke and the flame so many times that I basically polished the paper and I couldn't draw or erase anything from that spot, and I redid her nose and eyes at the very end when I'd finished everything else. Don't even ask me about her hair.

Actually, this is the second try at the grey paper. The first one got trashed.

Overall, I'm pleased with it. There are a few spots that came out very nicely. It looks a little different in real life - the dark shadows aren't quite that dark and there is some more detail.
By the way, I used both General's charcoal pencils and Derwent charcoal pencils and I actually think I like General's better . . . which is weird. General's graduated softnesses - hard, medium, soft and extra soft - make more sense than Derwent's light, medim and dark pencils. And if you are going to try charcoal pencils, get a good pencil sharpener!! The softer charcoal is a b*&^$ to sharpen and it breaks off in the sharpener, which means once you wear down the point that the pencil comes with, you're screwed. I swear, I had to throw away three brand new pencils because I couldn't get the little bastards to sharpen.

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Posted by soph on 01/28/2004 - 02:08 PM

are you kidding? this picture is great! the shading looks so even and flawless and the hair looks VERY realistic. im having trouble with shading and making it look even..it just looks scratchy when i do it. well done
Jennie says: I'm glad it comes off so well in the image. The charcoal is fairly forgiving with shading - you should try it sometime.

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Posted by Rachel on 07/08/2004 - 03:34 PM

Thats really good!I dont understand how someone can be THAT good... Shading takes forever to perfect
Jennie says: It's just practice and patience. That's all. Sometimes, years of it . . . :-P

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Posted by MB on 11/26/2004 - 09:23 AM

I always try to make smoke convincing-then it turns into see weed things!
Jennie says: Smoke is really tough. I'm not sure it came out very well in this one. I found that studying a lot of art noveau work helps get the feel of it and make it look pretty.

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