Drawing the Human Figure chapter 12
In this drawing, the artist used graphite on top of a toned sheet of paper. The tone was made with two different colored
pastels—green and ochre. The highlights are represented by erasing the pastel to reveal the white of the paper underneath.
The back is lit evenly, and the shadows are very soft. To suggest the shadow, the artist used a graphite pencil to lightly shade
over the pastel, which served as a mid-tone. The line was kept somewhat light, as the artist wanted to achieve an airy quality
through the line but a more solid and statuesque quality through the use of the tone.
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