October 10th, 2008 – It’s been another spell since my last drawing, but a water brother** of mine wanted to draw with me, so I asked her to pick a subject. She chose the Giraffes from an animal book of mine and I started drawing…

** (If you are unfamiliar with the reference it is from “Stranger in a strange land” by Robert Heinlein, but I haven’t found a description online anything like the true meaning you get from reading the book, so if you want to know what I mean… you’ll have to read the book.)

Analysis – This drawing I decided to take scans at different stages of the work. Scan 1 is after the general outline had been drawn and I’d just started to fill in some color on one of the Giraffes. Scroll down to see more explanation and the drawings.

The next scan shows most of the first Giraffe is filled in and shaded.

The final scan is my completed work. Shading with a black pastel pencil over other colors is really very difficult for me. The true representation I am trying to achieve doesn’t flow and I have to fuss with it quite a bit. Although these newer pencils seem to be better than my previous ones. Also the layering of colors seems to mute and distort the other colors that should be just a bit more vibrant.

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Note – I’ve decided to start posting my drawings to my blog. For a few reasons… To share the art, to stimulate me to draw more, and to keep a record of them all.

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