flyartist Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 Drawing Flies 52_06 Muddler Minnow-Compressed Charcoal on Pastel Paper. Original status: Available. Contact me for information. Swing by Jason's blog to check out his rendition of the of the Muddler Minnow! Tech Info- Now for something completely different! My buddy Corey and I were having a beer after the GreatWater show this past weekend and he mentioned how he liked a past graphite version I did of the muddler. I created this muddler sketch about 4 years ago. I wanted to do something a little bit different from the original muddler and to break away from the watercolors and gouache, so I decided to used some compressed charcoal on a cream colored pastel paper. I started with a very quick sketch of the basic shapes. I used my 6B pencil for this. I then started to block in the dark areas around the outside edges of the shape. This resulted in a nice negative shape of the muddler. I then added some details and dark marks to the interior to help describe the forms. I used my hand to smudge the charcoal to create some values. My finger tips and palm of my hand were black with charcoal. I had to make sure that I did not dry my hands on the light colored towels in the bathroom or else! If I do another in this style again, I will use a different paper. Although I like the tooth of the pastel paper, This brand of paper has very distinct horizontal lines that are part of the graining of the paper. The lines are a bit distracting and take a lot of work to fill in. Below is an in progress shot. You can see my quick warm up sketch off to the left. Below is a picture of the Muddler Minnow I did over 4 years ago. View the full article Quote
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