Something very different is happening this time around between pencil, surface, and the line / shade / tone coming forward.
Used a roller as well as a brush—first time—to help prepare the drawing surface and the result is, that beyond the horizontal / vertical weave left by the brush, this time tone also breaks down into a beaded appearance—and demands a significantly different technique: find myself using a cotton swab, as in ear-cotton swab, to spread tone, so the look, of the two drawings on the panel thus far (five more to finish the project), has more in common with painting strokes than with typical pencil shading. It also allows the white of the panel to glow through the tone in a pleasing immediacy / tactility / subtlety I’d not encountered before in any of my seven decades of drawing.
I’m hoping, perhaps vainly, that the drawing is also exhaustive and incisive and robust enough to offset the cuteness of such a young subject.
fillière 