Reaching back in time to an episode that was four years ago.
My first experience with white charcoal on black paper. I don’t have black charcoal paper or Mi-Teintes so I did this on the Fabriano Black Black which is one of my favorite papers. I had forgotten though that you can’t erase well without leaving a mark on this paper so there was a bit of a struggle. I also had a lot of difficulty photographing it as the camera exaggerated the contrast and no amount of adjustment seemed to help.
I loved doing this and learned a lot about how white charcoal performs. It will be great to try another white on black with a paper that lends better to blending and erasing. A great value study. And good study of the structures on a horse. I did not complete the background as I am running out of drawing time because school starts next week for me so I want to explore as much as possible before then.
Once again, I obviously did not complete this in 45 minutes. Those 45 minutes seem to translate into an entire day for me. But I’m trying to study in depth for now until I get the hang of all the new media and order more art supplies. I’ll have to loosen up and hopefully speed it up later.
