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In the spirit of Ghostbusters making its yearly rounds on movie channels, here is a graphite powder portrait of Harold Ramis, AKA Dr. Egon Spengler.

Graphite powder on 11” x 14” paper.

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(Tried to upload the process vid twice, tumblr no like, so go here to see it!)

Experimenting with my new toy: graphite putty.

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olly graphite powder

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Been meaning to do this for a while but finally: the full(ish) set of the drawings I did for Mab Graves' Drawlloween challenge in October 2024. In no particular order; technically I think about 5 are missing? Two are larger drawings I'm still working on, two are more just sketches, and one I just, uh, really don't like and doesn't really fit because I did it in marker and all these are in graphite. I tried to include all the prompts/days in the image descriptions.

I've participated in Drawlloween before, but this was the first year I actually tried to do every single day of the full list. I was able to prepare 5-6 drawings in advance, but I quickly went through those and was drawing and uploading in the same day about halfway through the month, I want to say. I'm a bit of two minds about the experience-- I liked that it really forced me to make time to draw and forced me to pick subjects that I don't usually tackle, but it was a bit stressful in that I felt pressure to post and shame and disappointment when my engagement dropped a lot in the second week. A good personal challenge perhaps, but if I do participate next year I'll definitely try and have more done beforehand and try and be a bit more detached from the social media side of things....

Anyway sorry for the long post, these are all done in graphite and some with graphite powder and/or chalk pastel. Ok byeeee

Outfit of the day! | 17.09.24

I finally remembered to take a photo of my outfit! Quite classic but on trend with this autumn’s vibe (and all things I already had in my wardrobe!).

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-2/5 secondhand

-1/5 vintage

Today’s 5 hours of drawing focused on light and negative space, using a rather messy graphite powder and more solid sticks of graphite. I did find this quite challenging as it’s not quite my preferred medium but I enjoyed the experiment :)

Additionally, I began a tonal study on the effects of light on the fabric elements yet I may take an even smaller section to really capture the movement of the satin which is quite difficult to replicate.