work progress – skin blocked in

0 comments By Kevin Filed in Uncategorized Tagged with colored pencils, Kneely, masking, nurse, oil pastels, vampire, work progress February 25th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm

I re-applied the masking around all the skin areas to start my day, then began roughing in each section using colored pencils and oil pastels. To give it a bit of a dead look, instead of the usual warm peaches and ochres I use for skin, I worked with a gray beige mostly, adding a touch of light peach or dark ochre here and there. The oil pastel I use over most skin areas is rather dull on its own, so that works in my favor this time. I then add a bit of brown and sepia oil pastels for some of the dark shadows, and some gray-purple for contour shading (I have to be careful using this, as its base is translucent, and seems to make everything it mixes with translucent).
Next step, detailing…
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