Friday, April 3, 2009

Rose - graphite

I'm working on a sketch of a rose - once again from a photo. Best to work from life, I realize, but in terms of practicing shading/colored pencil work the photos are useful tools for me (especially with toddler interruptions!)

The graphite rendering below is rough, but I want to use it as a starting point to refine the shading and eventually render in possibly pen/ink and colored pencil. The color of the rose is a beautiful, bright pink, with darker red buds, so I am testing out my pencils on the side to see what will work.

2 comments:

MD said...

This is a beautiful drawing. Well done. I hope you enjoy doing the drawing with Coloured Pencils....they are such a lovely medium to work with. You can get such subtle tones by layering different colours. I love them!
MD

Carol Creech said...

Thanks, Marie! I do love colored pencils and am trying to do more work in them.
C

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