Today's post is dedicated to all things pure and hopeful. I've been imagining a unicorn walking through a forest full of Canada lilies, so I thought I should put that to paper. And also that I've been meaning to put a nice header on my blog and thought this piece would be great for it.
This artwork is also my first time using odorless mineral spirits (OMS) with colored pencils.
My goal was to keep the background blurry, but still give the feeling that the unicorn was walking through a forest.
Here, you'll notice that the right side is a bit more darker than the left. That is the OMS at work. I used a paint brush to paint over the work I've done. It does a pretty good job removing the 'scratchy' look of colored pencils. It makes a pretty good blender.
Background is done and I've started working on the shadows and cast shadows of the unicorn.
I added a very light green (Earh Green) on the unicorn in random patterns to represent the shadows of the leaves of trees high above.
Here is the finished piece!
A close up.
Title: Keeper of the Forest
Medium: Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils
Size: on 9x12 Strathmore Drawing paper
