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Thank You Rochelle and Enzi. Most of the portrait work I do is in colored pencil. The softness and subtleness in the layers that you can achieve is really nice. I do a little pastel along with the colored pencils. It is important I think to state that I have personally tested every color and brand of pencil I use for color fastness. I know that they really get a bad rap especially it seems on this forum. Because of the improvements that the companies have made recently, the criticism is unwaranted. There are rogue colors and the secret is . . . don't use them. I have had a piece that I did 16 months ago in the window of a art store that I teach in for over a year. It receives sunlight about seven hours a day. It still looks just as bright as it always has. I have had to replace the mat which is suppose to be museum quality, acid free, etc. . .
Ok back down from the soap box. The highlight on the side of Jake's face is done by just leaving it alone! I used the colors around the highlight to make the highlight. The wispy hairs if you can see them, are done by impressing the paper with a stylus first and then when you apply the color, those lines will remain the color of the paper.
Rebecca
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