Wednesday, November 10, 2010

In Progress: Gaya

I took a day off today, and spent it starting a coloured pencil portrait of Gaya, my lovely cousin-by-marriage. She was kind enough to let me have a full-resolution copy of this beautiful photo for portrait-purposes, so I thought I should post progress in case she wanted to see. 

This picture serves several purposes: I need to practice my coloured pencil portraiture, as I haven't done any in years. I need to add some coloured pencil work to my portraiture portfolio. I need to create a wedding portrait portfolio. And I just liked the picture. ^.^


I've done the majority of the skin – I wanted to get as much skin done as possible, because once you put all your pencils away you can never remember what colours you were using. =P I still need to refine it lots, of course, but most of it's down, at least.


I'm using Prismacolour pencils on generic Bristol Board – not a combination I've tried before. 
About 5-6 hours so far.

I'll upload more progress when I make some – which will be the next time I take some time off and want to spend it doing portraiture. =P 

3 comments:

  1. Hi, it's RoseDaughter from dA. I'm actually trying out color pencils right now! We're working on portraits at the same time.

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  2. Hi RoseDaughter! Coloured pencils are certainly an experience after working in graphite, aren't they? It's so long since I used them for a portrait, so I'm definitely having to think about what I'm doing. Good luck with your portraits! =)

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  3. I can see you've been busy while I've been away! She's looking lovely! ^.^

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