Day 3: The Left Tower and Magic

So as you can see, when right-handed, it is essential to work from upper left to bottom right when working with pastels. And either you can do it in horizontal or vertical slices, I am pretty much progressing in vertical shafts.

For this day, I worked on the background of the piece a little more. Using Orthanc from LotR as my study, I put a smooth surface on the top of the tower, and added some lines etched into the surface. I also finished the first light source of the piece, his right hand glowing with power. Compared to the last day, this one was a little less detail, but still took some time.

I had some troubles with the light source, because I had colored part of the tower floor first, so every time I tried to color the brightest, whitest part of the magical flare, I couldn't achieve pure white. I eventually got out my Sennelier pastel sticks, because if you ever need to put color over something, that brand will do it. However, it comes off uneven, and clumped, which I didn't like. Thankfully I figured out that if you erase all the pigment from a section, you can use just a regular General's White Charcoal or a Faber-Castell Pitt Soft White to get a perfect white color.

And of course, the magic is tinged with a bit a blue.