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Watercolor 13

Watercolor over shaded pencil drawing experiment.
Done on Arches 300lb Hot Pressed with Holbein transparent watercolors.

Watercolor over shaded pencil

Watercolor over shaded pencil

First shading pass was done with 4H and HB pencils

First shading pass was done with 4H and HB pencils

Final Pass with 2B. I didn't go very dark as I wanted to avoid heavy graphite clogged areas. I had no idea how watercolor would take over solid graphite areas.

Final Pass with 2B. I didn't go very dark as I wanted to avoid heavy graphite clogged areas. I had no idea how watercolor would take over solid graphite areas.

First watercolor pass

First watercolor pass

Values set for features so I could see how dark to go everywhere else.

Values set for features so I could see how dark to go everywhere else.