Sketchbook dump

[avram]

This isn’t all from today; some of these are months old.

I’ve been fiddling around with Derwent Inktense pencils and traditional pan watercolors, trying to get some rich color-mixing going on. It’s harder than I thought it’d be. Especially the (caucasian) flesh tones. Damn white people, such complicated skin!

All this stuff is ©2010 Avram Grumer.

Here you can see me messing about with the skin tones. The guy was done earlier in the week, with both Inktense pencils and pan watercolors; Winsor & Newtone Rose Doré works pretty well. The color tests on the right are just the pencils, done today, as practice for the drawing of the woman below.

I got a fairly good skin color here with just the Inktense pencils, but it’s for such a small area that it doesn’t really satisfy me.

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I tried to find them up here in Canada, and my local art store gave me some hoohah about not being able to get them in stock. Bah. 8(

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Blick (dickblick.com has them at a substantial discount from list, and they ship internationally. The discount would most likely make up for the shipping cost.

Unfortunately, nothing beats getting to try 'em out in the store before buying.