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My entry for Colored Pencil Magazine's Monthly Challenge (November)

This entry was selected as the winner : coloredpencilmagazine.blogspot…

Monochrome portrait using white, grays, and black on black paper. I've been wanting to draw a portrait on black paper using white and gray colored pencils for some time now. When I saw the reference for this month's challenge, I felt it was a perfect opportunity and couldn't wait to get started.

I am very happy with the way this drawing turned out, but it was a total pain getting here. The black paper I ended up with is terrible. My local art store didn't have a lot of selection for black paper. This one has so much tooth that I have all these black speckles in my drawing. I had to go back over every section with a super sharp pencil and carefully fill in the speckles as best I can to make it smoother. I went through 2 brand new white pencils, 2 brand new light gray pencils, and the majority of my darker grays and black pencils as well.

What Colored Pencil Magazine had to say about my drawing:
STUDENT/BEGINNER Winner
Why It Won: We are so fascinated with how you did this as a “reverse” image, using grey pencils on black paper, for a “black and white” image. I know it was a struggle but the results are breath-taking and I hope you are are as excited with the results as we are! The skin is soft and I have to note the perfection with the pinky (funny how something so small can make such an impact!), while I have to also comment that I think the mole on her forehead needs to be either more defined or eliminated all together. Those eyes and detail in the hair are excellent. I am glad to see you left in the dark circles as I think this give personality and emotion to the overall image. Thank you for your inspiring entry!

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WIP

Work time, 6 days
Materials:
11x14 Black paper
Prismacolor Premier Softcore colored pencils (Black and White)
Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor colored pencils (5 different shades of gray)
kneaded eraser

Description

My entry for Colored Pencil Magazine's Monthly Challenge (November)

This entry was selected as the winner : coloredpencilmagazine.blogspot…

Monochrome portrait using white, grays, and black on black paper. I've been wanting to draw a portrait on black paper using white and gray colored pencils for some time now. When I saw the reference for this month's challenge, I felt it was a perfect opportunity and couldn't wait to get started.

I am very happy with the way this drawing turned out, but it was a total pain getting here. The black paper I ended up with is terrible. My local art store didn't have a lot of selection for black paper. This one has so much tooth that I have all these black speckles in my drawing. I had to go back over every section with a super sharp pencil and carefully fill in the speckles as best I can to make it smoother. I went through 2 brand new white pencils, 2 brand new light gray pencils, and the majority of my darker grays and black pencils as well.

What Colored Pencil Magazine had to say about my drawing:
STUDENT/BEGINNER Winner
Why It Won: We are so fascinated with how you did this as a “reverse” image, using grey pencils on black paper, for a “black and white” image. I know it was a struggle but the results are breath-taking and I hope you are are as excited with the results as we are! The skin is soft and I have to note the perfection with the pinky (funny how something so small can make such an impact!), while I have to also comment that I think the mole on her forehead needs to be either more defined or eliminated all together. Those eyes and detail in the hair are excellent. I am glad to see you left in the dark circles as I think this give personality and emotion to the overall image. Thank you for your inspiring entry!

featured in

Reference
WIP

Work time, 6 days
Materials:
11x14 Black paper
Prismacolor Premier Softcore colored pencils (Black and White)
Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor colored pencils (5 different shades of gray)
kneaded eraser