I really love the sense of light in this piece. I love the way it falls on all the curves. I love the tummy and the neck. Another wonderful piece.

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Thank you, the challenge to drawing on this dark value paper, is that it only represents the shadow halftones not the light, so you have to add in so much of the light tones with the white chalk.

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Beautiful mood, light and shadows. This really looks like moonlight.

Thank you hun!

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Such wonderful colours, fantastic

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perfect! i love your stuffs

very dramatic for a life drawing piece. I love it.

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love the lighting

Dang that lighting looks absolutely wonderful. Fav time

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Your comment "the challenge to drawing on this dark value paper, is that it only represents the shadow halftones not the light, so you have to add in so much of the light tones with the white chalk." seems incorrect to me.

You did a wonderful job using the paper as a mid-tone, so don't think I'm insulting your skill. But, I don't think that using such vibrant white is necessarily the only way to get the effect of the light. I'm thinking of some etchings Rembrandt did where almost the entire scene is appears to be blackened out, and even the light source is very dull. Color is lighter/darker depending on the colors around it, so what would it look like if you left the dark blue paper as the highlights?

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