The Re-Do: part one.

This is part one of the re-do of my previous post. There's still lots of work to do but so far so good.  I'm not going to ink this piece which is why the pencils are so tight.  Ordinarily I do ink my work and I wouldn't have this much graphite on the page. However, I'm approaching this image as if someone else was going to ink it.  Once it's finished I'm going to make some good quality copies and ink one of them just to see how it would look inked.  I'm going to explore doing more pencilled images because that's one of the many areas where I need to improve. It's too easy to leave a lot of the work for the ink stage thus depriving me of the chance to work on the foundation of an image or page.