STAGE ONE ▲

Once my imprimatura was down, I laid in the underlying structure, the drawing. I worked from big to small, going for the big shapes of her body and leaving the details til the very last. I used a bit of tissue or a rag to wipe off some of the imprimatura to reveal my lights, and a brush saturated with transparent red oxide to put down my shadows. By doing this I already had an idea of the way the light affects the body before putting any colours down. The drawing took me about an hour, trying to figure out the bigger picture and composition