For this project, the assignment was to draw something transparent with Prismacolor colored pencils. I must admit, I was not thrilled because I really don't love working with pencils. I played around with a couple ideas, but most of them seemed pretty boring... all bottles and jars and stuff. But then I had the idea to work with ice. I stuck a plastic pig in the bottom of a cup, filled it with water, and froze the cup.
This was the result:
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| AAAHGGHGHH IT'S ICE PIGGG |
It's kinda scary, I know, but I just went with it. I practiced with the prismacolors a bit
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| I actually used prismacolor watercolor pencils for the sketch |
and decided I was ready to start.
Voilà:
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| ICE PIG! he's coming for you. |
It was really frustrating because I don't really have the patience for colored pencil. I feel like I don't have enough control to blend the pencils and make the right colors (a big part of why I prefer painting). Mistakes feel a lot more permanent in colored pencil than they do in paint, too. All in all I guess it's not too terrible. It just wasn't very much fun.
It was a weird assignment. I don't know how I would have handled it. I have colored pencils that you can wet the drawing afterwards and they look like water color. Do you have those? Good job. Love, Grandma
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have those too... I used them for the sketch, but I like the regular pencils better so that's what I used for the final.
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