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I started a new drawing in graphite. of mother and son elephants together. I see it as a very powerful and beautiful thing, it's a relatively very detailed painting. So it's going to get a little longer. But for now I think he's progressing really well
Here I started the drawing of the painting and the background with graphite powder. And I also made the leg of the little elephant
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The camera picks up the picture digitally, it's always different to what we see with our eyes and the brain to workout the seen picture...
Therefore you have tools to calibrate monitors, scanners of different quality, white and black balance and many other features.
If I'm working on something I rather don't put much attention to visible difference but always aiming to adjust the photo taken to match what I can see on ball eye...
I'm more precisely adjusting the photo when I'm photographing the final artwork.
Then I want to make sure that the picture I'm sharing is matching as best as best possible the seen on the paper...
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You have a genius for recreating texture - some people have that, but lose the image because they're less skilled at representing scale and volume: you have those abilities too, though - I wonder when you first discovered you had these innate skills, some of which one can learn: but at your age, you've hardly had time to develop your abilities just through effort and good tuition. It does make one wonder about the nature of these abilities - but I don't want to delve so deep that I suffocate myself, so I shall just keep wondering how it is that some people can produce high quality work, while others, just as motivated, struggle to draw so much as a plank of wood!
