Here's the final on that Star Wars piece.

Since I did step by steps it really felt like it dragged on for me but I thought I should at least post a few closing thoughts.

One I screwed up because I shouldn't have tried to do a tonal drawing with an H lead drafting pencil. It was like trying to shade with 50% of the tones not available. Next time I would definitely use a softer lead.

I did go in and do a sky at the top and plasma space around the lower half. The stuff looked pretty cool but the only way I was able to achieve a really effective space effect was with a pretty soft lead. It threw everything off and to keep it I would have basically had to go in and re-do all the darks and many of the mid tones on the characters to match the lush blacks I got with the HB lead... and that wasn't going to happen.


The original intent was just to do a nice simple Star Wars piece featuring the main characters to get my feet wet again with penciling. It's been almost 18 months since I last penciled anything (I am embarrased to say)..and I ended up adding Boba Fett and a little background as extras....so I did basically what I intended and a little more. I tried a lot of different things that didn't make the final cut...but I can always add those little things I learned to some new piece.


People had been asking about clean pencils....obviously using a harder lead is going to keep things cleaner. I used to pencil with a 4H when I first started penciling in 2004...which is crazy. It's a REALLY hard lead and is like a rock. I moved down to 2H about 2 years ago and then went down to an H lead quickly thereafter.

Now I am considering using HB. It's a little dirtier...but if I am going to do pieces like this...a softer lead is a MUST.

Thanks for coming by, and sorry if this bored the sh*t out of anyone.

Don't worry I am going to do that Batman Hellboy Steampunk piece but that art show is coming up (fast) and I need to get 2 more pieces done for that first.

r~