Some art

I figure that after all of this talking, I should start showing. Thousand words and all. This is my first foray into working with colored pencils. Using Lyra Rembrandt and Caran D'Ache colored pencils because they both contain an oil-based binder (as opposed to wax) and working on a special flocked paper which has quite a nice tooth to it.

I really enjoy working with the method of building up the colors. The stonework was fun. It's just a scratch pad, more or less, but there it is.

This is an example of the Grid Technique, something which should be intimately familiar to any art student today. Utilizing the grid to break apart the target image into smaller bits that you then put together as the whole... well, this is in progress. I'll photo the "finished" piece and post it later. I started working in a 2B graphite stick, then after I was done with the figure I went back into the piece with an eraser, my 2B, and my 4B graphite. I erased the grid lines inside the figure, and I made some artistic choices and changes to the piece. I then tried to 'unify' the value scale, so that the darkness of the skin tones match the darkness of the brow, etc. Making all the values fall into place. Tougher than it looks, actually.

I'd love to do a grid piece with colored pencils on that flocked paper. Not just value but color and tone as well.