Rock

'Cock' Rock...

Partially influenced by the recent images removed from Deviant Art.

The 'rock' here is a confectionery from the UK which is traditionally sold in sea-side towns and has the name of the town running through the middle of, and it like a big stick of a candy cane. These are some of my favourite poses.

As usual I started with the Easy Grid method.

Then starting with the left arm, as it was behind the lighter hair, was in the top left of the image and provided a dark tone contrast.

To compliment the left arm I added the tone for the right arm next largely for the same reasons.

As is often the case, the eye was a key feature of the face to resolve next. Although the subjects eyes are closed, the dark lashes provided a dark tone for the centre of the image.

Looking for the next darker tones in the image of course then led to the node and lips. The tones round the eye sockets lead to the tones on the nose, and the shade under the lips led to the darker tones on the lips. In this images, the tones round the nose didn't lead into the rest of the tones of the face, I think because of the subject's profile in this picture.

Then I jumped to the tones round the ear, which were quite light, and bridged them over to complete the facial tones.

Looking for darker face tones then lead to including the tones of the neck and shoulder as they were similar and working on them together helped to keep the balance.

I then continued to look for darker tones in the face and included the tones of the back shoulder again to help keep the balance and as they were now some of the last large areas to complete.

Once the tones of the neck were all in place then the dark collar with it's dark shadow was added to provide contrast and depth.

Then finally the rock tones were added in straight lines with minimal cross hatching.