So after looking at my kitty picture I noticed that his left arm looks a bit deformed and slightly broken. I didn't think it looked like that when I first sketched it on the paper. Fortunately an advantage to having a blog is I have a step-by-step series of pictures to double check where I went wrong. Looking back at the first post I don't see much wrong with the shape of the arm. I think the problem may have happened when I got over-zealous with my smudging. I must have changed the shape of the arm then.
If you look at the last post, you will see what I mean. Fortunately I haven't done anything permanent to the picture (like spraying a fixative or denting the paper). If I had pressed too hard with the conte I may have put engraving marks into the page and that will effect the final piece. I won't know for sure until I remove and attempt to reshape the arm. I think that if I use my kneadable eraser I should be able to reshape fairly easily and then I will just have to shade and smudge to match the rest of the picture.
I will try to do this over the weekend so I can stay on schedule, but I make no promises :)
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