Thursday, October 7, 2010

King's Ransom


Charcoal on Paper
34"x41"

I drew this on a large format scale. I got this idea from Robert Longo work. He does subjects in charcoal, in large format style. Tools used were, General's medium and extra soft charcoal pencils for the main drawing and details. A white pastel pencil for highlights and some lighter areas. Artist Soft Pastel sticks for the darkest darks and the surrounding dark area. Kneaded eraser for mid tone lighter areas. I started off with charcoal toned Strathmoore paper. Time frame, it is difficult to say on hours, since I did not keep up with them. It took about a week overall. Working off and on with it. Thanks!

3 comments:

  1. Beautiful work here Johnny !! nice to see you posting such lovely work !

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  2. Thank you for taking the time to post a comment Sandra! Hope you are doing good.

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  3. Hey thought you had left the art world , would be a great shame if you had disappeared!! : )

    Im great thankyou for asking !!

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