Red hot

Here is my day 3 creation (fyi, I'm counting day 1 creation as making the blog). I didn't have the frustration of my day 2 oils, so enjoyed today!

I'm not sure if you are allowed to post naked drawings on blogs, but we will see if it gets removed or the blog-gods come after me :). I used colored conté here - red, black and white. I've used a single color with black and white before and really like the results. I usually squint my eyes at the picture and immediately pick out the darkest areas and the lightest areas, then fill it in with black/white and the single color is all the in between and blending. I think it gives a nice shape to the picture.

I feel like she looks a little bit on fire, hence the name . . . but we're all red hot on some days, right? :)

One issue I always seem to have when I do pieces like this is the background. What do you do? Normally I leave it blank, here i've tried to scribble it in. Any advice when you aren't looking at a specific background? I think I need to think more of the composition as a whole, and not only concentrate on the subject . . .

Thanks friends!

Until tomorrow. . .