Awaiting Inspiration

Prize for for placing second in contest Dare to Cross Challenge. I promised a graphite drawing, with background, of a subject of their choice. Her character Blair Evans enjoys art and music, so here he is planning a future project, listening to inspiring background music and eating an apple.

You’re lucky you didn’t ask me to do this a few months ago. I’ve only been decent at drawing humans since last December. Even now the only thing I seem to do well is middle-aged masculine looking men, so drawing an androgynous younger character was a bit of a challenge.

Dang, this is why I hate doing backgrounds. I need more practice, but whenever I force myself to do one I usually hate the result. Guess I’m just more of a “character floating in white space” kind of artist.

Tools used: Prismacolor Turquoise Sketch Pencils- 6H, F, 4B, and Derwent Graphic pencil- 9B.