Intermediate Drawing - Class #7

[hwango]

The grand finale. I resumed work on my wolf, though I had to do it with a different set of pastels, since the instructor unfortunately forgot to bring the ones that I used last week. Oops. There are a couple of things I'm not entirely happy with, but I finally decided to call it done before I screwed it up in some way. The thing that bugs me the most is that I used too much pencil in the outline, and you can still see its reflection if you look at the picture from an angle. Also, it shows up glaring white when photographed with a flash. = ( I did a little retouching of the picture I took to reduce that glare. The colors might be a little off in this too. Still, here's the final version of the wolf on posterboard. That took about an hour and ten minutes, so I decided to use the rest of the class to start another one. I spraypainted my other pieces of posterboard earlier that afternoon in case I finished ahead of time, so I was prepared for this.

I hurried a lot, because I knew I wouldn't have access to the materials after tonight, but managed to get most of the way through drawing a West Coast Sea Nettle. I'm pretty happy with how it was going, so maybe I'll try to get ahold of some pastels and finish it up. People suggested that I sign up for the pastels class that starts up on the 19th. I'm thinking about it, even though I didn't care much for pastels at first. I had a lot more fun with them after working with them for a bit, and particularly when working on the jellyfish. That would be another $165, though, so it's not something I want to enter into lightly.

Comments

[octophobic.livejournal.com]

Pastels are fun. I was surprised to find that out myself. :) I may still have a desert scene I did in pastels a while back. It's garish but I like the quality of color and the blending.

Your jellyfish looks great! (^_^) Looks like it's going to swim off the page.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Say, if you've used them before, do you have any idea how to go about making them a bit more permanent? I gather there's some sort of fixer you can spray them with, but it destroys about 10% of your brain cells each time you use it. Hairspray was suggested as a cheaper, less lethal alternative, but I'm not sure if they've actually tried that, or if the suggestion was second hand.

[octophobic.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I've used that spray at least 10 times! (^_^)

I don't know if hairspray works. I'd just use the other stuff in a very well ventilated area. Maybe you could permanently mat it at prints plus but that costs $$$$.

A gas mask will set you free. :)