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At this stage I'm almost finished with the piece. I've decided to do the fist as well. Although it's going to suffer some serious cropping of the little finger....I just wanted to render it anyhow.
I've also just laid down the tonality of the blanket and shirt at this point.
The close up shows the fingers just after a process I call "caramelizing" layers on. I call it that because it's like the way caramel candy looks as more and more heat is applied. In this case the "heat" is using an HB and 2H (rounded over) to apply layers on the chamoised and tissue-buffed underlay of soft graphite. These applied layers are also buffed with clean stumps. I'll put as many as 5 or 6 layers on this way. These fingers are within a layer of being finished.
-Geary
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