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"Cotswald Cheese with Cherry Tomato"
This is a lovely wedge of Cotswald cheese (which has bits of
herbs in it)
with a little cherry tomato on top.
I will show you step-by-step how it was created.
I used Faber-Castell Polychromo colored pencils on Strathmore 500
Series cold pressed illustration board.
The pencil colors used are Yellow Ochre, Canary Yellow, Grey Green,
Cadmium Orange, Orange Yellow, Chrome Green,
Sea Green, Geranium Lake, Scarlet Red, Dark Red, Light Flesh, Deep Red,
True Green, Light Green, Light Ultramarine.
The finished piece is 5 x 7 inches.
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This was my reference photo. Its not very good because its a little
blurry.
So I drew the piece from life, which is what I prefer doing anyway.
But I like to have a photo for back-up in case something happens to the
"model".
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Step 1
I sketched in the composition with
Yellow Ochre.
In real life it was much lighter than this. I darkened it up in
Photoshop to show it here.
I also purposely made the cheese a bit shorter, and also deleted the
wood panelling and green tabletop.
(If I was serious about using the photo for reference, I'd have set it
up with something white in the background to begin with.)
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Step 2
Here I wanted to establish some color on the whole piece, just to
get started.
Using a light pressure, I did an over all wash of
Canary Yellow
on the cheese,
then started to indicate some of the shadowy bits with
Grey Green.
I did some light
Cadmium Orange on the tomato, leaving the
highlights.
I also did a pale pale pale wash of
Sky Blue for the cast
shadow (which barely shows up here.)
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Step 3
Here I did
Orange Yellow and
Cadmium Orange over
the whole cheese.
I also used an eraser to indicate the highlight on the top edge.
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Step 4
Now its starting to get fun.
I did the green bits with
Chrome Green,
Sea Green and
Grey
Green.
I used a heavier pressure for the greens, since they're darker bits.
I'm also not slavishly copying every little green bit exactly like it
is in the photo.
Some pieces are the same, but I've also done some editing and
rearranging.
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Step 5
Here I went farther with the cheese.
I did more
Cadmium Orange over the whole thing,
and also added a shadow for the tomato on the top of the cheese.
I worked on the edge highlight too.
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Step 6
Now I'm starting to work on the tomato.
I did
Geranium Lake over the whole thing, with a little bit of
Cadmium
Orange.
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Step 7
I developed the tomato further here, with
Scartlet Red,
Dark
Red,
Cadmium Orange
and a little
Light Flesh in the highlights.
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Step 8
Yes, I know this looks weird.
I needed to go darker, so added
Scarlet Red,
Deep Red,
Dark
Red, and more
Geranium Lake.
I also filled in the highlights because they didn't look right anymore.
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Step 9
I fixed it.
I put the highlights back in with a
Helix battery powered eraser.
I also added some more darks for shadows.
And I lightly outlined the cheese and tomato with
True Green.
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Step 10
Now I'm starting the background.
I did an even layer of
True Green over the whole thing.
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Step 11
Almost finished.
I added more
True Green, plus
Light Green all over the
background.
Then I used
Chrome Green and
Light Ultramarine for the
shadow.
I did more tweaking in the tomato's cast shadow as well.
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Step 12
The finished piece.
I added more
Cadmium Orange over the cheese,
and more
True Green in the shadow.
