My grandmother left me this china doll many years ago and I just rediscovered it while rummaging through my mother's attic. I used colored pencils on hot press watercolor paper. The problem was that the paper was quickly saturated so I couldn't get good darks or lights, and with colored pencils there's no way to erase mistakes. Because of that I couldn't put in the highlights that would make her look like a porcelain doll, and I couldn't back track on marks that I later discovered weren't in the right place.
While I'm disappointed with the way the drawing turned out, it was a good learning experience. Finding peace between what you actually created and what you wanted it to be. Kind of like life.
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