Colour, clothed (Rosien, sitting)

COLOUR!

This batch comes with the caveat that I am tipsy. :)

So after a fair old while of restricting myself to pencil only, I finally caved and got some pencils. Not expensive ones. I think they're Derwent academy ones. I've used much nicer, but these will do for the likes of me, as it's not like I'm producing anything stunning anyway. They seem kind of reluctant to give up their colour to the page. Am finding it hard to get a deep or even shade with them, which is probably me rather than them. The greens are the hardest though. Difficulty in getting them to blend or layer effectively. PRACTISE. I'm not going to buy expensive kit for now, I'm not good enough to justify it and anyway it's probably good for me. (See under why I'm not trying to get to grips with image correction on a computer. If I ever get actually good I might look into it.) If I can do it without all that then I know I can do it properly. Does that make sense outside my own head? I don't know, I'm tipsy.

Here's someone new: Rosien, who I chose partly because of the HAIR. I have colours, let's use them! :D Alternatively, "Adventures in attempting fair white skintone without an appropriately coloured pencil, and subsequently getting camera to report it." Scanner failed utterly. Camera variable, hence more than one shot - the daylight one is true-ish to everything but skin, the warmer one true to skin and little else. :P My current best effort for pale white skin is white-->yellow-->rose, as I can't seem to do any colour straight onto the paper pale enough, and the white pencil stops it laying down too much colour.

Any and all criticism and tips on this gratefully received. Things I have learnt: Colour offers 43567 new and exciting ways of getting it wrong! Woo! (Sodding bloody fabric.) Also her nose is too long, I just noticed that. I have an odd feeling this needs inking or something but am too afraid. Does it want inking?

Rosien does not like being interrupted when she's working. Daylight.

Not even when the colours are warmer.