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Yes, it took me a while to get to this next post. The holidays are my flimsy excuse. Here are the next two installments of Chaos Monkey. As I mentioned before, my plan was to fix up some of the value problems I saw by going back over a lot of the line-work with graphite. In this case, I used both a 0.7 lead mechanical pencil and a 4B drawing pencil to sharpen up the contrasts a bit. Finally, when that still didn't suit me, I cheated a bit and picked out the darkest darks with micron pigma pen. That led to a kind of outlined look, particularly in the mouth and tongue, the focal point of the picture. I also did some simple outlining work on the hands, trying to keep the line calligraphic and to work the darks gradually into the fuzzy hair lines without obscuring my points of highest contrast. I'm not entirely happy with how the hands still seem to compete a bit with the head but I think that could be resolved with more darks around the chest area to "frame" the head a bit more. As it is, it still looks pretty washed out but I'm not worried as I know there are many fun little details yet to come. 
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