WIP - work in progress

It might look like I haven't been drawing much lately, but in fact I have.  I just haven't finished a few things here, so I haven't posted them.  I started out doing a picture of Michael as a zombie and quite enjoyed doing it.  I'm not sure how to finish it so I started on a picture of Heather - with the same memento mori theme and actually I liked it a lot.  I decided to not finish that at the moment because I wanted to do it on a large paper - so I redid it.  I wanted the size, but sheesh - its so slow going on the larger paper.

At any rate, I've struggled with the softness of the paper and I've got things down where I want them.  Now I have to go over it and do the last layer - to get in the details.  It's so darn hard to do details on this paper!  Its hard to describe why my technique doesn't fit with the paper.  All I can say is it crumbles up on the details, so when you look at the picture, its like looking through a foggy plexiglass.

I hope to get down to business and finish the thing up today.  I used to be able to do an entire picture in one day and with this paper - it will take me all day (or maybe more) to do the details in this.  But I'll try....