Cropping & Curving the Flat Paper Surface

Baby’s gazing intently at me in my drawing.  His plumage is getting more detailed and now he has one foot.  I’m deepening tones in the shadows and gingerly touching up the side of his breast that gets the most natural light, adding more texture.  Feeling that he’s lost on the expanse of white Bristol paper, I crop him and burnish and blur the top two corners (artist Jerry Winick’s idea).  Now it’s almost like looking at the bird through a fish-eye lens.

26 Apr This entry was published on April 26, 2012 at 6:04 pm. It’s filed under Black & White Drawings and tagged crop, cropping, drawing, fisheye lens effect, fisheye lens illusion, parrot drawing, pencil drawing, photrealism. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.