The teardrop:

Original artwork pencils on paper By Angelo Borg.

Greetings steemers:

As I have already inform you I am trying to remove the rust of my hands by practicing everything I know from the start, with sketches. I will try to go back to my previous state of designing and I will share my progress with my loyal followers here on steemit at my blog with daily updates. At some point I will jump to more complex paintings and draws as I am regaining my confident towards my skills.

 Yesterday I presented to you some rough sketches of the way I approach body expression with some rough sketches, nothing fancy or complicated just some lines that describes the human pose with some quick lines. 

 Today I will present you my approach of describing reflections and refraction's, what is best to achieve that than the human eye. 

 For this design I used as my mediums 3 pencils ( B, 2B, F) on a paper. As always I will start with an F pencil to make some measurements and a rough shape for the eye. I never force my pencils on the paper, I let the hand flow with just enough force so that the pencils are barely touching the paper.

 I will work then with some light tones and I will decide before everything where my refraction's and reflections will be. Remember I hate using erasers but they are a tool that comes in handy, as you will see on my final retouch of the sketch.

Then some mid tones here and there with a B pencil, 

 finally I will retouch the entire sketch with a 2B pencil.  

Problems at photographing pencils and some tips:

The camera is having a hard time to capture the tones indoor, the flash is just reflecting on the metallic nature of the pencil so I will have to take the sketch outside on the sunlight to use some natural light for the best result of the picture.

Note: This is the only use I can think of for an eraser, I want to create additional contrast and do minor corrections on my high lights and the shape of the refraction of the light. Mainly the left part of the eye as a mean to create a better perspective and the upper parts of eyelishes (those minor changes are not going to be that apparent on the camera unfortunate, but they do a great deal of improvement on my naked eye,)

 In the photos below you can compare the before and after effects, of what the eraser is good for. But still remember clean up your eraser and go soft with it. slowly until you get the result you are after.

Before:

After:

 I hope you will like this and enjoy it, as much as I did creating it.

Best regards.

 Angelo Borg

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