Here is my entry for an exhibition / competition that my local yacht club is holding [link]
Unfortunately I only found out about this last week and with nothing to show I only had time submit one entry.
The theme was the sea (der) so I thought this old sailor would be befitting.
I would like to have kept working on this but unfortunately i’ve run out of time as its been put in to get framed so I can submit it this Saturday.
The scan seemed to make it look a little dirty and leave little specks on it so its pretty much left as is
And its busy at work here today so I couldn’t really be bothered to crop and tidy around the edges on this one
I might fix it one day but I wont hold my breath lol
It also scanned light so I adjusted the mid tones and high lights to bring it back close to the original.
Im not sure if you can tell (which is a shame) but I thought id try something different with this one as its
probably going up against some stiff competition but on the original ive picked out his hair, side burns & some eyebrow hairs with white acrylic paint using a 000 fine sable I was really happy with the effect its produced XD

Anyway there’s a lot of prize money up for offer so I have fingers and my toes crossed
Its also up for sale too but I would rather keep this one for myself so its bound to sell aha!

Completed in appox 16hrs
2H through to 9B pencils
2B & HB .05mm mechanical pencils
000 sable and white acrylic paint
& Blending sticks

Thanks for looking


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