Tuesday 15 December 2009

tiger pencil drawing-work in progress


Slow progress i'm afraid at the moment due to a bad case of 'man flu' hampering my concentration.Ive made a start on the tiger by blocking in the darkest stripes on the cats head,these alone take a little while to do as each one is a combination of layers of graphite working from H grade right through to 5B to get the really deep blacks.ive completed one ear and the nose of the animal and have layed in the base coat of H grade pencil for the facial fur.The next stage will be to further layer the fur with HB and B grade pencils before working in the fur detail with B and 2B grades.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! This looks wonderful, even at this point! How inspiring!

Unknown said...

thanks jennifer :)

Sue Clinker said...

I've just stumbled across your blog Clive. What fantastic graphite work and thanks for explaining your technique with this picture. I usually shy away from backgrounds so found this very helpful.
Look forward to seeing progress

Unknown said...

hi sue and welcome to the blog.thanks for the kind comments on my work.