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By the Light of the Moon

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For this drawing, I experimented with darker shadows and various softer value pencils. Where I would normally have used HB or B, I was using 4B or 6B instead, and trying to ignore my instinct that told me it was too dark.

Aside from the Mars Lumograph 8B in the upper left hand corner, I am quite happy with this drawing. I certainly need to practice with the softer graphites, though... they don't blend the same, and mistakes are not easily undone. The Mars Lumograph 8B pencil was very waxy, and I could not fade it at all... it had 1 shade.

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Materials:
11x14 Strathmore Bristol Vellum
Blick Studio graphite pencils (6H-6B)
Cretacolor woodless graphite 8B and 9B
Mars Lumograph 8B
kneaded eraser
paper mate skinny eraser stick
Mars plastic eraser
make-up removal discs
Image size
4181x3301px 13.89 MB
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