Titled: Emergence The Woman
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| Pencil and Charcoal Portrait of Young Woman |
My concept was that I wanted the subject to look like she was emerging from herself.
I did a light under sketch and began to work the face using pencil. I worked a lot on blending and smoothing the contours. I progressed from hb pencil to 4 and 6 b pencil and then to hb, medium and last soft charcoal pencil.
In contrast to the blending and care of the face I used a different approach for the hair leaving it implied and sketchy. I wanted this to look like a drawing not a photo.
The resource material had little to work with and lacked details. There is more than one way to deal with scanty information, this time I ignored as much as I could and worked around things that were not in my resources. I could have embellished or supplemented more details from other sources but I wanted to focus on the concept of a spiritual concept of coming forward.
I am very happy with the results.
(c) Adron
