Hello all,
I don't want to put up too many of these pre-student drawings, but I'd like to at least make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing with the copying, so any comments, criticisms, or advice (other than the obvious "don't quit your day job"
) are welcome and appreciated. I'm not overly sensitive, so please feel free to say what you think. I know it's not up to the standard of most of the work in this catagory, but you should have seen the stuff I was doing at the end of last summer (the "beginning" for me)!
Here's one of a drawing by Francois Boucher. I noticed that the pencil I used lead to a different look than the sanquine chalk he used (duh), especially in the background, hair, and deepest shadows. I tried to get it to look as close as I could, and managed to resist the urge to smudge the graphite for the most part.
I was a little shy about the tracing thing, so it took me about 6-7 hours and a lot of erasing to get it to this point, and I'd say it's 'overworked' in places, with some errors of course.
Anyway, here's the original, my attempt will follow
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