Post #242453 by THOR's on Wed, Jul 12, 2006 7:06 AM

Well don't be annoyed!! DRAW !!!! The medium here is colored pencils on scrap, colored matte board. I also add a few highlights at times with some white acrylic or guache(opaque waterolor). It's fun to draw on a toned paper because it makes you think in terms of light and how light will lay on simple forms. Mess around with it!! You can see my layin lines in most of these where I started lighly sketching in simple forms..then added detail and a "light source". I know other artists who do this sort of thing digitally on the computer.

There are a lot of things you can do like this in "photoshop". You can fast sketch on a wacom tablet, lay a tone layer over it or isolate the lines in another layer and use the eraser tool to chisel out the light forms... Pastel may work too but gets pretty messy for me. I have a hard enough time keeping paint off my clothes and finger nails. When I have worked in pastel in the past, I get so much on hands and face I often walk away looking like a clown who tried to put on his makeup after a cheap bottle of Scotch.