Penciling and Inking

A couple days ago, I was talking to my friend Tori (who's a pretty great illustrator and inks in a completely different style than me), and I asked if she'd be up for working on a penciling & inking project. She said yes with zero hesitation. The plan was to sketch the same sculpture at National Gallery, trade the sketches with each other, and then ink each other's drawings. No photos could be used for reference.

Here are the results:

Houdon's sculpture of Diana and Tori's inked version of my sketch.
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The museum was about to close, so we had to act fast. We looked around at a few sculptures and ultimately selected a bust of Diana by Jean-Antoine Houdon. It's from the late 1700s and resides in the same room as David's portrait of Napoleon chillin' in his study.
The angle I chose to work from is pretty typical for me: profile with a lot of focus on the hair (I went back to the gallery today to take the above photo). Sadly, Tori didn't get a photo or scan of my pencil sketch, but you can see her finalized ink version... and I assure you, her shading technique is wildly different from my own. Nowhere in my pencil sketch did I shade anything remotely in her style, and I was thrilled to see her inking style applied to my drawing.

Houdon's sculpture, Tori's pencil sketch, my inks, then my ink wash.
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And here's the same sculpture, but this time from Tori's perspective.
I tried to take a photo of the sculpture today from where Tori was sitting while drawing, but there was a girl parked on the seat (snoozing), so this is as close to the angle as I could get without putting my camera in front of the sleeping girl's face.
Here you should see the sculpture, Tori's pencils, my first round of inks, and finally the ink wash.