Remember this?

Once upon a time, I had promised to show you the finished product of this gray colored pencil background that I made, so here's the before...




and finally (I just got around to taking the picture) here's the after...




I never really know where my pencil is going to lead me, but the colored pencil made an interesting surface for graphite to glide, it made natural skips, sharp lines, and the black took on a different tone, I will play some more with this technique again...only on a better quality paper, this sheet really took a beating...