Before and After Revisions: Man on a rope swing - drawings in pencil and colored pencil

A Change of Pants - Revision of my Rope Swinger

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 1 Dec 2020


A number of things were bugging me about the picture I drew of the man on a rope swing, most prominent among them that the background was Not Up To Speed. I spent a few minutes making the trees and greenery in the background look a bit more deliberate, expanded and defined the flow of water, and added some shading to the figure and his shorts. Here's the revised version:

Man on a rope swing - revised drawing in pencil and colored pencil

Here is the original version for comparison:

Man on a rope swing - original drawing in pencil and colored pencil

It's still not QUITE where I want it to be, but it's getting closer. I feel like it looks a bit more deliberate. Looking at it now on the screen, I can see that my shading on his shorts isn't precisely right, so I'll probably go back in and tweak that.

Thanks for looking at my pictures :D

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Current projects: writing a literary history book about Victorian and Edwardian fiction as successor to the medieval dream vision genre. Learning to draw. Slooooowly learning the fancier ins and outs of the roll20 VTT.


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