Quick watercolour of a Leopard Gecko

Today’s painting is a quick watercolour based on a photo of one of my own leopard geckos.

Charcoal Tyrannosaurus Rex

RAWR!Proper scan of the drawing coming soon…

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Drawing… with an eraser?

a Kneadable/Putty Eraser

a Kneadable/Putty Eraser

Drawing with an eraser may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible.

In the drawing below, Allosaurus, I’ve used smeared graphite for a background then added more smeared graphite to the subject to create the shadow areas, the residue graphite that is still on the cloth is then rubbed in to the mid-tone areas. Any areas that need to be highlights are ‘drawn’ with the putty eraser (more on kneadable/putty erasers here), effetively removing the mid/dark-tone graphite.

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