White Flower

This is the product of a tutorial from Lee Hammond's book "Lifelike Drawing". I enhanced the background by first masking off the outline of the buds and flower, and applying charcoal and worakable fixative several time in succession until it gave a really dark black. The flower was done with graphite pencils. I had troble with the mask. When I peeled it of, it left adhesive. If you look at the full view, you can see what look like random scratches in the flower where the adhesive was left. It seems that it attracts the graphite.

Anyway, it was a great adventure in shading.