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Self portrait number one - 11x14 color pencil on paper

For this picture, I switched to gray paper and loved the way it made the color pencils pop. I was happy to work out a way to get the detail in the bicycle chain (I used a little stencil to outline every individual link) and the spokes in the wheel (following a wheel-builders manual, I used a ruler to get the layout right and the lines straight). I really didn't have anything critical to say about this one after I finished it.

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