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When I was drawing this, I felt it represented humanity- innocent when born, until succumbed to the way of the world (hence her expression). She's confused, feels isolated and left there to fend for herself. There's always hope (light) and power from up above (again, light) . Should she be distracted and leave the room or just stay in that light that she trusts so much? I don't know.

I question my spiritual strength. What about you?

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Longest journey for me in terms of a drawing process. Ups and downs. This drawing helped me conquer my fear of drawing darks and experimenting with mixed media. It's also my first emotive piece.
I managed to find a way to capture the photo of this drawing with minimal glare from the graphite by using lots of dark fabric.

Freehand
Graphite, and Charcoal mix for background
14 X 17 " Bristol Smooth
No blending except for background

0.3mm mechanical B
2mm clutch 2H
0.9mm mechanical HB
Charcoal pencil HB and blending stump for background

Thanks for viewing!!
Dina

Edit: 6/26/2007 - Pencil Club Daily Deviation

Edit : 9/29/2007 - Won 1st Runner Up in Colorado Academy of Art 1st Annual Drawing Competition. Exhibition : [link]

Edit: 10/22/2007 - Added to list of Traditional Pencil Drawings on DA's Traditional Art Day [link]

June 2008- Darkened around the door - now it's complete...

Dec 2009 - 2nd place winner - My Art Contest (online)

July 10th 2010 - Juror's Award - Curtis Park and Humanities Center - Artists of Colorado show

October 14th, 2010 - 2nd Place in Drawing - 15th Annual Artists of Colorado Exhibition (Colorado Artist's Guild)

August 5th, 2011 - Accepted to be published in North Light's Strokes of Genius 4 publication due Oct 2012

Description
When I was drawing this, I felt it represented humanity- innocent when born, until succumbed to the way of the world (hence her expression). She's confused, feels isolated and left there to fend for herself. There's always hope (light) and power from up above (again, light) . Should she be distracted and leave the room or just stay in that light that she trusts so much? I don't know.

I question my spiritual strength. What about you?

***
Longest journey for me in terms of a drawing process. Ups and downs. This drawing helped me conquer my fear of drawing darks and experimenting with mixed media. It's also my first emotive piece.
I managed to find a way to capture the photo of this drawing with minimal glare from the graphite by using lots of dark fabric.

Freehand
Graphite, and Charcoal mix for background
14 X 17 " Bristol Smooth
No blending except for background

0.3mm mechanical B
2mm clutch 2H
0.9mm mechanical HB
Charcoal pencil HB and blending stump for background

Thanks for viewing!!
Dina

Edit: 6/26/2007 - Pencil Club Daily Deviation

Edit : 9/29/2007 - Won 1st Runner Up in Colorado Academy of Art 1st Annual Drawing Competition. Exhibition : [link]

Edit: 10/22/2007 - Added to list of Traditional Pencil Drawings on DA's Traditional Art Day [link]

June 2008- Darkened around the door - now it's complete...

Dec 2009 - 2nd place winner - My Art Contest (online)

July 10th 2010 - Juror's Award - Curtis Park and Humanities Center - Artists of Colorado show

October 14th, 2010 - 2nd Place in Drawing - 15th Annual Artists of Colorado Exhibition (Colorado Artist's Guild)

August 5th, 2011 - Accepted to be published in North Light's Strokes of Genius 4 publication due Oct 2012