This past week I have been working on the colored pencil “painting” of the colocolo, and I’ve discovered something. It’s the medium I’m really best at. I also was reminded of why I wanted to find a different medium to work in. 1. It is slow. 2. It is often hard on my eyes. 3. It is sometimes impossible to get the light right for working for an extended period of time (which results in #1 and #2). I guess I’m supposed to suffer for my art. Heavy sigh.
Colored paper really is the best way to make a drawing look good with colored pencil. You get to let the paper do some of the work. Yeah, lazy. I also skip other steps. Some people would call it “cheating.” Computers are so wonderful. I can take a digital photo and make it larger or smaller, print it, trace the outline of the animal and make a grid on the tracing. Then I can lightly draw the same grid on my art paper and just copy what’s in each little box. And I actually learned that in art class in high school, so if it is cheating, I’m not the only one who does it.
Anyway, here’s the colocolo after I worked on it some, and after I worked on it some more, and a new picture of a big gray dog on gray paper. (Yeah, I know, it’s a Weimaraner.) I got the picture out of a doggie magazine, but I didn’t think to write down the dog’s name or who owns it or anything, so, for now, I just have to call it an orphan. Nice looking dog, though.
Showing signs of life
Nice Kitty
So easy, and yet, so hard
