The Crabshack Gallery » Traditional http://crabshackgallery.com/blog The Art and Game Dev Blog of Marina "MashPotato" Siu-Chong Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Pencil Crayon Fun http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/02/22/pencil-crayon-fun/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/02/22/pencil-crayon-fun/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:35:04 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=134 I’ve recently been taking some art classes, and we started work in pencil crayons (which I’ve used before, but only as opaque blocks of colour).  Anyway, we made portraits of a live model, and I was pretty pleased with how it turned out :) It’s neat learning to use other media, as I’ve been almost entirely digital for the last while.

Pic’s after the jump because it contains nudity (*shock, horror*! ;) )

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A reasonable facsimile of me working from a mirror:

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