This was my second time attending the Pencils4Tea portrait session. It took me a little while to find my rhythm, but I got there in the end. The time of a song isn't long, anything between 2 and 5 minutes. And I don't see the whole picture, just one detail after another, until about half way through, when I actually thought to myself "just lightly pencil in the overall shape and incline of the head and hands, then just go for it", and it worked out much better! I worked in pencil (Blackwing) and watercolour. My paper buckled a lot. It added to the effect. A little bit of colour pencil when I had time. But the lesson here is that I'm better off when I reduce the tools! And hands are hard!
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