Powered Up Some More Steem and a Skull Pencil Drawing with Process Photos!

Hi steemians, its great to see the steady price rise in Steem since its low in November. I have just bought 115 Steem and powered it up. I would like to buy more but will force myself to dollar cost average because learning from the past I don't know where the price could go. There could be a short term correction however, in my opinion with the bitcoin price going up there is not long left to buy cheap Steem.

I'm sharing with you quite a dark drawing today of a skull based on the modelled drawing exercises I have mentioned in previous posts. I was gifted by a friend a model of a skull and thought it would be a good opportunity to draw from life and also learn anatomy.

I started of by drawing all the lines in the vertical direction of the model

I then did the same however in the horizontal direction.

Using darker pencils I went over the drawing once again adding darker tones and more details.

Finished result!

I used a rubber to create some highlights where needed and a blending stump to blend some of the tones (it's important not to over work it though). For the dark areas I would recommend a 9B or 8B pencil, I used charcoal for some parts to create the darkest tones. It was done on A3 paper and took about an hour and a half to complete. I'll use better quality paper in future as some of the texture appears in the drawing.

Hope you enjoyed this post and thanks for checking it out!

Ian,