Legolas Graphite Photo

Yeh ok confusing title I know, but I wanted to answer some repeat questions about the background and stuff, so a picture says a thousand words

This is a photo of the actual original looking about as BAD as I can get it, with some strong natural light coming in from the window on the right hand side! My camera isn't designed for extreme close-up's sorry!

This light is reflecting off the graphite and showing the textures, where I have been pressing the paper and the almost oily graphite sheen! I've weighted down the edges as the pressure has made the paper curl slightly

So you can see, the background is not perfect, as it does have texture with the circular motion indented on the paper and the reflection shows the black in the centre of the collar is perhaps not as deep as the background black as there wasn't Lumograph underneath it. The background is as black as graphite goes, although if you squint close up, there are very tiny white flecks where the paper lifts, but I'm not sure I can ever get rid of every single one of them

When you view the picture in artificial light or with no reflection, it does still look pretty good, but I did mention on the original submission it looks even better digital, which is rare for a graphite piece!

All have have changed is the saturation and contrast, to try and get rid of the washed out scan (which looks horrible and grey, like all scans). There have been no other marks added or taken away, I just cropped the white edges

So I hope this answers a lot of questions, and if it disappoints...well sorry, but there we go!

It's still my favourite drawing so far...so I'll just have to keep improving!

- Kal

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