Afternoon Drawing Bears

Working on something familiar to get back in to the swing of things on a grey January day. Thought I'd go back a few steps though as some of the stuff I've been doing has started to look a bit toy-like ...not what I'm aiming for. I want the figures in my illustrations to still look like animals. I don't think I'm quite there yet but I did make a note of the different steps if you want to have a go!

  

The Bear was roughly drawn on 70g Canson marker paper - you can see all the mistakes and over-draws if you enlarge it. Then transferred  to 220g smooth surface cartridge paper using a light box. The colour was added gradually in layers using Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils (go from light to dark .. need to add gradually- there's a limit to the amount of pigment the surface will hold.)