Work In Progress: Raine, Update 5

Work In Progress: Raine, Update 5

            Over the past week I’ve continued to refine the facial features, building up color layers. I am not pushing very hard on the pastels. Very little pressure on the pencils. Laying in the color by very gently rubbing on the color, rather than rubbing in the color. This way I’m able to build up many, many layers. When I’m adding layers of color I hold the pencil at a very shallow angle. Actually rubbing on with the side of the point of the pencil. I use a mat knife to cut a very long point on the end of the pencil and keep it sharp with a single edge razor blade. I also work the pencil at steeper angles, also with a very sharp point, when I’m working details, but use the side of the pencil when blending larger areas where smoothness and gentle transition is necessary.

            The colors I’m using for the face are PP light flesh, brown ochre, burnt ochre, cinnamon, burnt carmine, caput mortuum and raw umber. I’ve made some adjustments to the eyelids also. To knock down the brightness on the right cheek I used some brown ochre.

            All along I’ve been looking at the face in isolation and wanted to get a feeling for the entire head, so I decided to place in the lights of the hair. At this point I’m not interested in detail, just block in the light masses. For this purpose I used CO 105 ivory and CO 692 golden ochre light.

More photos showing the progression in refinement can be found on my website.