About working in graphite: it is a lot more forgiving than colored pencil. You can lift off some of the graphite to lighten an area, seeing values is much easier in black and white. But it is easy to polish the graphite and get a very undesirable shine. And, frankly, it is messy. No matter how hard I tried to keep my work covered and protected I kept finding smudges that needed cleaning up. I swear the stuff was migrating outside the lines and messing with my paper. Constant hand washing has left me with hands like sand paper.
All in all, I am pleased with everything about the final result except the composition. Wish I had spent more front-end time planning where everything was to go. It's hard not to be hyper critical of your own work. Easy to get discouraged when comparing with truly skilled artists, the work of a couple I plan to post here in a bit.
Blackberry:
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