More Progress on Medusa

 The body of the snakes are mostly finished, so I started working on the skin. My goal is to give the skin a rough look. I plan on having this finished before November ends.

Snakes for Hair

I've started on the snakes. So far it's not as bad as I thought it would be, working on them. Right now, I'm just getting the basic color scheme in before I refine the details more.

Faber-Castell Polychromos are now being use.

Medusa: A Work in Progress

Recently, I got the inspiration to create a Medusa portrait. I've had a book of Strathmore Tone Gray paper, and I believe Medusa will work very nicely with it. This is just the line art for a start. I have a separate sketch book that I used mostly for line art and I then transfer the art on nicer paper. I thought that the gray paper was light enough for the original line art to show through via the lightbox, but that wasn't the case. So I had to transfer it the old fashion way, which is rubbing graphite on tracing paper and then drawing over the lines with enough pressure in order for it to show on the gray paper. Well, now I know.

I think I have my work cut out for me on this one especially with the snakes. It'll be a good challenge. :)

I'll be posting some more process shots along the way with this one.

Olive green Prismacolor Verithin pencil used for the line art.