Day nineteen of The 100 Day Project for 2021.

Without having a chance to do any research or watch tutorials or whatnot, I tried out some more pencils in my selection.

I started off with a trusty HB (though a "proper" one without that waxy feel!). Then I used a 6B for the darker shadows (as previously, but a sharper new pencil). I worked with a 4B for the lighter shading.

There was some amateur finger-rubbing to try to soften the lines in the shadows I was creating. It was successful to varying degrees.

I probably did it all wrong in terms of my pencil selection. And my more talented drawing friends can educate me, and/or the tutorials I'll try to watch this weekend will.

And I know there are shape and proportion issues with today's sketch, but I think you'd all know they were tulips even without the source image, so you know, progress.

And the tip of the tulip on the left looks as much like labia as the original source image. So win-win, right? ;)

The source image was taken in St Mary's Churchyard in Hornsey back in March 2019.