Over at my hangout they run a weekly drawing challenge. It's a lot of fun and easy because you just pick from a list of photos provided by the host and draw. No worries about choosing a subject or copyright because all the photos are the property of the host. This week I chose to draw a reference photo of a bowl of apricots on a table.
The drawing took around 5 hours to draw.
I used Caran d'Arche color pencils on 260gsm, 9x12 inch, smooth bristol.
As I mentioned in another post, I'm
new to color pencil and I find it amazing how many pencils you need to
produce a drawing like this. I'm a bit pencil poor so I have to do a
lot of layering with different colors. Actually experimenting with colors is the
most interesting part. I used 11 colors to produce this drawing.
- The bowl - Gray, light olive, emerald green, white
- The apricots - Orange, ocre (light brown), yellow, red, brown. black
- I blended with the white pencil.
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