Media: Ebony pencil, knead-able eraser, neutral ground paper, figures
Description:
We continued on neutral ground drawing with blue figures of two dancers. The man had a woman on his head. She had arched and could not see her face, facing upward. First, I started with an eraser to create light values, and then I started using an ebony pencil to create darker values such as woman’s thigh, back, etc. I created light value with white chalk. I highlighted the man’s forehead, ear, and woman’s breast and knee area. I highlighted the areas where would have been closest if I was sitting in front of two figures dancing. I darkened (darkest area) where two figures meet. I thought about surface contour on subjects because actual contour line does not exist on real living things. It is well shown when you look at the picture closely—where woman’s head is, there is no lines between hairs and background. I just darkened the whole area to imply that darkness darkened the area so that we cannot really distinguish hair from the background. I think I increased my range of value from light to dark more than four because I used white chalk (1) and 8B (4) pencil. Other than that, I have erased part (2) and neutral ground (3). Therefore, there is no way that I would have less than four light and dark values when I used white chalk and the softest pencil, 8B.
