Swans Place on a December Afternoon
“Swans Place on a December Afternoon” [24th December 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal pencil, charcoal sticks, sunlight yellow, leaf green, light green and sky blue pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3217 x 2757 pixels.
“Swans Place on a December Afternoon” is composed from an original photograph [F1.9 1/917s 3.60mm ISO 40] using only a smartphone camera taken at 1435hrs on 6th December 2022 by myself.
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The first draft outlining the landscape and trees took 23 minutes. My second draft included the leaves and sun/sunlight pencil effects taking 22 minutes. The third-final draft included all the colour details you see with the sunlight yellow, leaf green, light green and sky blue pencils taking 26 minutes.
Seventy one minutes total for “Swans Place on a December Afternoon” clock timed.
Here is the photograph directly inspiring my quick drawing:
[F1.9 1/917s 3.60mm ISO 40] with smartphone camera at 1435hrs on 6th December 2022.
I love my artwork and hope you do too.
