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Here is my drawing
You need to lift some of that color out of the drawing. What I would do, for instance with the shin guard, is lightly put a piece of scotch tape down where the dirt is and take something with a dull point, a ball point pen for example, and very lightly tap a few times and carefully lift the tape. Repeat until I get a good representation of the dirt cloud, changing the piece of tape as needed, then lightly color with the colors I'd be using for the dirt.
Be very careful with the tape and where you place it because it may damage your paper if you press too hard with the pen or put it on the paper without pencil wax already laid down. An eraser shield will help with that.
It's how I got the fuzzy dandelion seed head look in this exercise I did from a magazine:
It is possible that you've put too much pencil down to get back to a lighter color. In that case, you'd probably want to start over and draw what your eyes see (shapes) rather than what your mind "knows" is there (objects).
Otherwise it looks great so far.
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- Eric -
Last edited by Jalapeno; 11-15-2015 at 07:23 AM.
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