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| Blondie in graphite |
Got a little more practice with negative space drawing with this one. I started off with Blondie, my aunt and uncle's doe. If you look at his left ear and his muzzle, you can see this white whiskers, drawn (for lack of a better word) with negative space. I did the same thing with the rocks, the shadows are colored in and the top, light part of the rocks have little color, but more detail. I don't like how the rocks turned out. I think they're decent considering it was my first attempt drawing rough rocks up close, but I don't think they're up to my self-imposed near-perfect standards. But I am most definitely my own worst critic, so maybe the look fine and I just can't see it objectively. In my opinion, the negative space backfired. The shadows are too dark ad the li is too light and the result is you tend to focus more on the shadows than the surface part of the rocks, where the surface part is supposed to jump out at you. I think par of the this is Blondie is to light so it diminishes the effect of the light surface and makes the too-dark shadows pop. I also think the trees in the background look strange, but its in the background so it works. I had trouble with the sky again, getting it perfectly shaded and perfectly blended, but luckily there weren't any clouds to 'undraw'. Although, come to think of it, that's negative space drawing too. Learning new techniques all the time :)
