Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Color Pencil Sketch

Here's my latest on the "body" theme for CED2010. I decided to go with this magazine clip first of all because my hubby said that the girl looked alot like me and my body. I cut it out of a magazine quite a while ago and always intended on doing something with it so when I heard of the theme for this month, I knew this was the picture I would be using. The other reason is that I have back issues and have since I was 22 years old when I had my first bout with a "slipped" disc. Since then, I've had several episodes of sciatica and recently had a displace rib. So my doctor says I need to do exercises to help strengthen my back muscles.

For this sketch, I decided to try colored pencils to get a feel more for the colors . . .


I think it looks pretty good! Next time, I will try my hand with the acrylics on this new linen paper by Strathmore I found at Michaels last week.

On another creative note . . . I have been trying to work on my new SNL kit . . . I have the papers done (which I'm really happy with), but seem to be struggling with the elements right now. I was trying my hand at making pearls again and seem to be running into a problem with some of the effects in PSE 5. Here's what I've done so far . . .


















Well, I'm off again for now . . . hope to be back soon with another creation!

4 comments:

  1. I wish that I could draw. I love the lines and the shading.

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  2. What a lovely drawing - you did a very nice job with the folds of the fabric, and the colored pencil looks really pretty. nancy

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  3. Fantasic art. Really liked the way you have drawn the curves and the shading...

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  4. Thanks Mousey, Nancy and Sarika for all your comments and encouragement. I appreciate it! Hope to see you come visit again soon.

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