This drawing was based on some of the techniques used by Francisco De Goya in his "Los Caprichos" drawings. The idea was to create the dark areas first and then erase and find an imagined figure. Although I did not totally go about it that way I am pleased with the outcome. First I sketched out the proportioned figure lightly and then began to make the darkness around them. I then continued to create mostly darks areas on the page, except for the two light sources which are the street lamp and the moon. Other than that the dark areas were created by shading, burnishing, and a little bit of hatching and cross hatching. From these techniques I was able to create an outdoor night seen with a somewhat "imaginable figure" looming on the streets, not to mention the erie shadow to the left of the figure that was created unintentionally.
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