'The Chain-sawed Girl'
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Series No 2
'The Chain-sawed Girl'
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On this page, you can follow how Jacob makes a work in colour-pencil on a sheet of plastic transparent 'paper' (satinised polypropylene).
He uses protective paper bands where he mustn't draw on the places where an imaginary wooden fence is supposed to be.
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1 He nearly always start with the face, and in particular the eyes, the nose and the mouth.
2 Here he finished the face.
3 And then the hair.
4 Now a start of the body, the décolleté.
5 He glued some paper bands on the drawing, where he musn't draw.
6 Now a start of the legs.
7 And the knees.
8 Still lower.
9 A foot.
10 And the other.
11 Time has come to remove the protective bands.
12 One arm was still missing.
13 The last details and an integral correction of the colours.
