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- Owner: Cindy Wider (View all albums)
- Uploaded: Jun 03 2010 04:33 AM
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- Album Cindy's Illustrations
This drawing was created with graphite pencils HB 2B 4B on bainbridge board and measures 29.5 x 26.5 cm. This is the volunteer driver of the Mary Valley Rattler; an old steam engine that tourists can ride on and enjoy a piece of yesteryear. When we took this journey, I had so much admiration for the people who keep this tradition alive and felt compelled to draw the driver. I love his hat, his braces and the look on his face. I took many photographs to final settle on about 20 for this image. I used one image for the man himself and many for the background train to see close up parts. I held up the entire train while I was taking the photos and had no idea until the train driver quietly said to me "I think it's about time we left now".
Tannis Trydal, on 08 June 2010 - 02:29 PM, said:
Its quite nice, its sort of like a stiff piece of cardboard with a similar texture to water colour paper, I like it for softer affects but not a really smooth result it has a little bit of tooth and texture. I wanted this for the
capacity it has to hold graphite for the train. It's not good for really smooth shiny objects - I was going for a more robust look for the train - a bit chunky. I wanted texture. I was careful to only lay the graphite on lightly
and once to keep moving when I worked on the portrait of the man himself because I didn't want to damage the surface texture at all. Its a pretty tough surface but I wanted the skin to be smooth and gentle compared to the rough texture of the train with all the details on it.
