I've been doing a lot of experimentation over the last few days...drawing with both hands at once, color experiments, style experiments...and here's an example of just one of these. For no particular reason, this is former Governor of Maryland Austin Lane Crothers (1908 - 1912). I used a micron brush for quite a bit of him...most of the hat, his mustache, the eye on our right...but used the pilot medium ball point on the rest of him for some shading, his other eye, and his ear. I even switched out pens for the signature.
It is just an experiment but creates a strange effect. It almost creates a Jekyll and Hyde sort of image and poor Governor Crothers is made to look more malicious than he most likely was (though I know zero about his politics and chose him for his hat and mustache).
Like all of us, there is a stark black and white that we can never seem to completely get away from and yet we will always have some sort of gentle gray shades blending into both light and dark.
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