Here is the sketch at the seventeen-minute mark. I used a ball-point pen for this drawing. I used to use ball-point pens for nearly all my sketching because I love the way they glide across the page. They can leave the faintest of marks, which is perfect for those "searching" lines at the beginning phase of a sketch. They can also produce a very rich and visually dense line for creating a nice value range. I stopped using ball-point pens when I looked at stacks of drawings I had done a few years prior that had faded into nothingness. Nevertheless, I chose to use one again...and I LOVED it. I am hoping that one day the art supply manufacturers will introduce a ball-point pen with archival (light fast) qualities.
Here is the sketch with the very simple still life set up.
Here it is when I called it quits.
I took a bunch of close-ups of this sketch, but many of them are of very poor quality. Again, I must get the photography area set up for documenting my work. I will share a couple regardless.
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