I wasn't happy with the way my last pencil drawing looked so I spent a little bit of time last night attempting to clean it up with the end result of improving the drawing. I dragged out my pencil box that my hubby bought for me many years ago and grabbed the 6B. On my way to work night shift last night, I picked up a package of Primacolor Ebony pencils as well. I have used those two new pencils to darken up my drawing. Using constructive criticism, I think these modifications are certainly a move in the right direction, especially the shadow cast. At least now they actually look like a shadow and not part of the cutlery.
I see one glaring mistake now that I have it on my screen before me (that is the beauty of technology and iPhoto). However, I can still fix that without any problem. This is a good start but I still think that it needs some more work, somehow I think that it is not dark enough yet. It is just does not look "metal" enough for me. Having said that, I will give this drawing a final spray and put it away for now. It will be alright if I move on and try my hand at another drawing of something metal.
That is it for today as I am trying to get all the bits and bobs together in preparation for putting them together to make ten mixed media postcards! I will be getting my mailing list by January 27th so I would have liked to have many of the cards made by now but I just haven't had the time. I am working overtime tomorrow and then the next day my hubby and I are heading south to the big city to see our grandchild. It has been a week and a half since we have seen her and I expect she will have changed much already. I miss her!
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