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Saturday, April 16, 2011

A reworking

I was doing some organizing last week and sifted through some of my previous drawings I had set aside to consider whether or not to work them along some further. I decided this one was a prime candidate for a reworking and spent some hours on it. I felt there was too much going on that was distracting in the lower portion so I simplified the shapes there. I also reworked the shadow areas to deepen them giving more more emphasis to the figure and the birds.  The first image below is the newly reworked drawing and the second is the drawing as I had left it before last week. The original photo is a greyscale jpeg and the reworked photo is an untouched camera shot. The new photo shows the actual warmth of the graphite on the paper.


 Ravensprize
16W x 14H
Graphite on Arches Hot Press watercolor paper

Posted by at 4/16/2011

2 comments:

Lynda Schumacher said...

Your reworking seems to have added increased warmth, depth, softness, and drama. I LIKE it, Michael.

April 21, 2011 8:54 PM
Michael Bailey said...

Thanks Lynda. I'm a lot happier with it now.

April 21, 2011 11:30 PM

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