So like, I’m not trying to toot my own horn, but this drawing was done in a bit of a stupor at 3 in the morning. I think the only way it worked is because of the way of drawing I learned in clothed figure drawing class. It’s about the overhanded method of holding your drawing tool, which in this case was woodless pencil sharpened like charcoal and conte. It allows you to apply soft lines and broad areas of value and then hold it in the classic “writing” style for details like the eyes and the hand and subtleties of the mouth.
This is all learned from one of my favorite instructors at the Academy of Art and a total master of illustration, Thomas Gronbukt.
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