I was teaching a class to some home schooled kids and I did this drawing as part of a demonstration of drawing a face. I brought it home and did a little more work on it. Maybe I should have left it as it was in the early outline stages, all artist have the problem of knowing when to stop and not overworking a project and as nice as this turned out I think I lost a little of the freshness of the sketch.
I used all my charcoal pencils from hb to extra soft, which is a little unusual for me. This young man has dark skin and I wanted to capture his features and his expression and not just make it a drawing of boy with a dark face.
The paper was inferior since it was from a cheep practice sketchbook I got at the drugstore and it didn't have the lift I would liked to have worked with, so erasing was not working very well and blending was poor. Just the same I will set it aside, it may end up at the county fair.
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| Charcoal Sketch of an Angry Youth |
The paper was inferior since it was from a cheep practice sketchbook I got at the drugstore and it didn't have the lift I would liked to have worked with, so erasing was not working very well and blending was poor. Just the same I will set it aside, it may end up at the county fair.
Adron
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