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Pgthompson commented on a
Photo in the group The Practice of Botanical Drawing Discussion Board 8 years, 2 months ago This is such a fun study.
This morning I was drawing, and my mind was wondering, and I was thinking about your drawings and how you say that you want them to look “softer”. I never really understood what you meant by that, but I think I may have had an epiphany :). I tend to have a heavy hand, and sometimes get too satuarated too fast, and then my pencil seems to move in a “slippery” way across the paper, instead of kind of grabbing on to the paper. (Hard to explain). But the result seems to be rigid feeling drawings. I have to force my self to layer my pencil in very light layers, slowly building up to saturation. When I can manage to do this, I end up liking the results better. I’ve started to force my self to hold my pencil more toward the back instead of toward the tip, which forces me to tone with a lighter touch. Does this make any sense?