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Hand Drawn

Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Christmas Eve, 24th December 2008

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CHRISTMAS WOULDN’T be Christmas for me without my annual visit to church to attend midnight mass, but it makes Christmas Eve seem rather long as I wait until it’s time to go. As we sit chatting, it’s an opportunity to draw my left hand yet again.

In my first drawings I’ve used hatching - repeated lines to indicate tone - and bracelet shading or contour shading - lines to indicate the shape - so in my drawing (bottom left) I had a change and went for pure outline instead.

But my natural style (bottom right) isn’t so rigidly linear, though it’s good to go for a clearer style occasionally.