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My Coloured Pencil copy of The Young Beggar by Murillo
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Hi all, thank you. I did the background using a Derwent drawing Ivory Black pencil. It's a really deep black. I made a mistake with it though - It leaves pencil marks which can be seen in a certain light so I used Sansodor and a 1" brush to smooth it out. It did, but it also left it matt and not as black as it was. I adjusted the image to show the black as it should be.
I have got some of Stuart Semples Black 3.0 (Ridiculously dark, matt black which absorbs 99% of visible light) and was considering using that for the background but I'm not sure if it'll spoil it, it really is the blackest black. But anyway, for pencils, the blackest are Derwent drawing and Staedtler Mars Lumograph black. Here's an unadjusted photo of the drawing and the Black 3.0 next to it.
