Art: Opposites attract

[rueckenfigur]

I was trying to get some complementary opposition going, but I think I went a little overboard with the shadows on Steve's face ...

The medium is graphite on paper, size is A1 (so 59x84 cm or 23x33 inches).

Also photographing graphite seems to be hard (I only bought the pencils today, so haven't worked with them a lot yet/need to figure the photographing out), so just imagine that the paper is actually white and the graphite a very dark shiny grey?

Comments

[marinarusalka]

This is really good! I'm impressed with how much detail you got into the shadowed part f Steve's face. (When I try this sort of thing, it just comes out like a black blob). I also love the expressions on their faces, very intense.

[rueckenfigur]

Thank you! Erm, some of the detail on Steve's face is actually white acrylic that I applied after the fact ... his eye, for example, had a black line that was all wrong ... .