Blind contour drawing

The subject of my art piece is golden mountains with faces and hands built into them. The sky is a grey purple color that complements the yellow hue of the hills. I made the faces by taking a pen and looking at the subject without looking at the paper. Afterword I used a sharpie to emphasis my neater lines. Aside from this I also erased a couple pen lines. Next, I used watercolor. I used yellow, brown, purple, and black. I used line, value and shape to show the form of the mountains, faces, and clouds. I used the color to emphasize the unity of the shapes. I used primarily yellow and purple to contrast the sky and the hills. This piece is an example of informal balance.

Once I finished the blind section of this drawing, I thought the hands and faces in the earth related to the Earth goddess Gaea, so I decided to incorporate these shapes into the landform (mountains). I wish I had not folded the paper into my backpack because it created weird vertical areas with more watercolor pigment. I wish I had highlighted more of the lines. I wish I created a subject in the foreground because the background is not very interesting to look at on its own. Recently I went back in and added shading on the faces and sharpened the lines, so that the focus of the drawing is the faces which was my original intent for the piece.

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