This image was drawn with the col-erase pencil again and was a pleasure to draw. I enjoyed building up the layers of tone and working with the background.
As usual I started with the easy grid method.
The blocks of tone were started with the background gradient to provide a tone to render into. The background was also added early to avoid having to fill in tone with pencil strokes that emphasises the shape of the negative space.
The tone of the bodies was started with the male figure as he contained the darkest tones. Also as the background tones were darker on the right I decided to work right to left on this image.
The tones of the female bum were added next as they were cast by the male figure and worked with the the shadows cast by his body.
Working in blocks of tone I then added the tone for the bent female legs and the darker tones of the tummy and breasts before continuing the light tones across the rest of the skin.
Next I added the darker tones of the face, eyelashes and lips. This helped to define the shape of the face and prepared the background for the addition of hair.
The hair was added with light tones initially to provide a guide as to the shape and tone of the final hair position and to help work out the lines of the neck muscles.
Finally I worked over the whole image darkening tones and solidifying edges and boundaries.
