Now I've gone and done it. I started to add a soft background but the texture of the paper meant that I lost the line of the figure, so I needed to go really dark in the end to bring it back. In an earlier post I said that I was using the Progresso pencils but in the end I really used the B/2B carbon clutch pencils for most of the drawing, but I did do the background with the 4B and 8B Progresso. They seem to give a good dark on this bamboo paper.
I will leave this image to mature for a little while now so that I can come back and finish it with a fresh eye. Though I am not sure at this stage what else I will be able to do as I have committed with so much dark? Well I guess if nothing else changes it still needs cropping and balancing properly as the light area round the legs seems to be a result of the scanner light on the graphite layer.
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