Thursday, March 26, 2015

Papayas & Pencils

Prismacolor colored pencil on Stonehenge paper


It takes a lot of pencils to draw a papaya—
and these were just for the outside.

As you know, I love comparing the exterior of a fruit or vegetable to its interior, which is often wildly different. Looking at its humble yellow skin, you'd never know it is concealing a cache of beautiful, black caviar-like seeds.



 Apologies for the quality of these last WIP shots...I took them at my desk with my phone instead of scanning.


This next one is a great example of the "ugly phase" that a lot of my drawings seem to go through—where I'm just about to toss the whole darn thing in the trash. Then, somehow, things finally start to come together. Whew.

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