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By: Paula Pertile,
on 11/12/2012
Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Drawing a little peppermint candy. Its starting to 'get there'. There's really not much there, colorwise. Its all white and clear, then those pops of red. So its a challenge! I'm using Polychromos and Lyras so far. And its 6 x 8 (well, the paper is 6 x 8. The candy is about 5.5" wide. Which is about 3 times actual size.)
Here's how it looked before I started adding the red. I wanted to establish the values in the twists and fold and shadow before I got into the fun color part.
And here's how it looked when I'd barely started - and this is darkened up quite a bit just so it would show up on the screen. Very very very light applications of soft greys to get it going.
What's funny is that I don't even like these candies. I'm not a 'mint' person at all. But I think these are really pretty to look at, and after all, it is almost Christmas, so I thought I'd do something seasonal. I'm thinking of doing some little cards with this image, if there's time. Meanwhile, I have a whole bag of these in the cupboard, which are in no danger at all of ever being eaten (which I can't say for anything chocolate!).
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By: Paula Pertile,
on 8/28/2010
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This is finished. I'm happy with how the color finally turned out. Like I said in the last post, I had taken it as far as it could go with the Lyras, and they just weren't doing it. So I got out the Polychromos and voila, instant success.
(** ha ha, I misspelled Polychromos in the pic above -
they are not Polycr - homos. Gay pencils? Well why not.)
They're both oil based pencils, and worked well together. I now know that the Lyras are good for a very soft look, whereas the Polys can do it all. If anyone has any thoughts on the Lyras they'd like to share, I'd love to hear them.
This is for sale, if anyone's interested. And I will be doing prints.
I need to have a good sampling of small food still lifes done for a little show coming up in October. I also have to go back to being a children's book illustrator for a while. This should an interesting couple of months!
They're both oil based pencils, and worked well together. I now know that the Lyras are good for a very soft look, whereas the Polys can do it all. If anyone has any thoughts on the Lyras they'd like to share, I'd love to hear them.
This is for sale, if anyone's interested. And I will be doing prints.
I need to have a good sampling of small food still lifes done for a little show coming up in October. I also have to go back to being a children's book illustrator for a while. This should an interesting couple of months!
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I love gingerbread houses for the same reason -- getting to draw all that colorful candy! That's my next project.