2 Girls 1 Color

I promise the title has nothing to do with anything about this project.  I don't even have a concept for it, I just wanted to draw some girls in cool clothes!  My teacher was asking a lot of people in the class what the  title of their pieces were during critique.  He didn't ask mine.  Maybe that is a good thing.

Anyways!  I think these turned out pretty nice.  I like them.  I've wanted to try incorporating cut paper into a more "traditional" technique (does that make any kind of sense?) for awhile.  I just wasn't sure how to go about it and I didn't really have an open opportunity to experiment until this assignment.  The girls are photo studies.  I found them on a street fashion blog.  I drew on clear vellum so that the cut paper could be pasted underneath.  (By the way... vellum is so amazing to draw on!  So smooth) For class presentation I hung them on t-pins so that they were about an inch away from the wall on which I had BFK cut to size as a base.  I was hoping that there would be a shadow of the studies with a silhouette of the cut paper cast onto the BFK, but the lights are fluorescent  in that classroom so it didn't really work.  The images on here are just scans so... no shadow here either (sad sad).

I definitely should have gotten some darker darks into this one.  

And here is the all day life drawing I made that day of class.  The hand and the shadow on her chest are... not so great.  I spent the most time on those parts... go figure (punny!). 

I hope your weekend is filled with lots of chocolate and flowers and soft socks.