A Sunday afternoon, the chicken's in the oven and all the veg is prepped - I fancy doing some drawing while it cooks! I think I'll use this orange paper and these pastels:
Now, what shall I draw? Aha! Here's a pretty reference!
Yum! Now, what colour shall I use? I like the grey... I'll do a rough shape...
The orange paper doesn't come out very well on my phone - this one (above) is about right, but it looks different when the light in my kitchen changes... annoying. I'll start putting the features on next, with the grey pastel, my squishy rubber and finger-smudging:
Looks a bit weird, doesn't it? More smudging will help - I find I can get more of a sense of form and shape if I smudge.
I'm not convinced that eye's in the right place. But I'll do some work on his mouth. With my squishy rubber and my finger to smudge...
Ooh. I quite like that. I'm altering that eye, though.
The eye's still not right. And he needs work around his mouth and jaw.
His nose needs work. (Still not happy with that eye.)
I'm just getting the urge to attack him with my favourite charcoal pencil, though, nicely sharpened with a knife and sandpaper and used on its side. And maybe a little chunk of white pastel for highlights... Could be a mistake. Could go horribly wrong. Let's do it!
Oh - well, I think I like that. What do you think? Better with the charcoal, or should I have left it alone?
My roast is done. In fact, some things are a little overdone, but it'll be fine...