Today’s drawing is based on a photo from a walk that I took early last week. It was really cold and there was the dusting of the first real snowfall on the ground. My glasses and my camera phone kept fogging up, but I managed to snap a couple of pictures that I liked of some marshy fields. The drawing is still unfinished (to me), but it’s close enough that I wanted to share.
For today’s post, I decided to include all of my marks on the side of the drawing that I typically crop out when I scan. You’ll notice that on the left, I have gray and brown marker swatches, and at the top, I have my colored pencil palette. These are all of the colors that I used, and before I applied any colored pencil, I colored in the entire sky area of the paper gray and the entire lower area dark brown.
This way, when the colored pencil is stacked over the marker, it’s like working on toned paper. The only difference is that I’m toning the areas myself, just how I want them. Coincidentally, right about the time I was working on this in my sketchbook, I had finished polishing up a similar summer landscape. I’ll leave that at the end here, for the contrast!
