Stargazer Lilies in Vase - pencil sketch - negative drawing
Drawing from life and enjoying the fragrance of these wonderful flowers, I started out just sketching this as a regular pencil drawing, then decided I liked the background to define the flowers more than shading and shadows on the flowers themselves. Then I came back in with a kneaded eraser to subdue and further define the edges of the dark area and to make the light areas more crisp.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Jo Castillo // Oct 20, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Very nice, Regina. Different and interesting with the dark background.
2 Regina // Oct 21, 2009 at 5:57 am
Oh, no! The dreaded “interesting” and “different” comments.
Some pieces that I do – drawings or paintings – leave me kind of ambivalent, but I did like this piece. I might go back and soften the edges some later on, but it was a fun exercise.
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