I did tons of drawing for the Paper Planes project; not much of it made it into the final drawing, but in a way, all of it did.
I think I spent a whole day chewing my pencil and scribbling. Of course I'd thought about the drawing from the moment I got the brief, and knew exactly what I wanted to do, but I never know how I'm going to make that happen until I start. Or how it's all going to turn out.
Sometimes the same stubborn idea keeps popping into my head, and I have to draw it to get rid of it. Sometimes I have to draw it to see what's wrong with it.
I really really liked the picture of the ghost looming over a small town, but the story didn't have anything to do with the town, alas.
I'm saving the idea of the town, though; it's going to make a very nice stripey repeat pattern for a lino block.
Once I settled on a composition I liked, I drew it up on A3 paper, which took about a day. That evening I looked at it again, hated it, and redrew it, which took about two hours. I used the discarded drawing as a practice piece for the texture of the mountain, and to see whether the flowers stood out well enough on it, which also meant I wasn't too nervous when I started inking the final piece. (Usually the first half an hour of inking is complete rubbish.)
So all in all, a week of solid drawing.
Hi Jesse...just wanted to mention that the third drawing in is just fantastic. I love the movement in the lines and especially her hands. The whole thing looks like fury. Great!
ReplyDeleteI love your sketches and the way you see the different perspectives!
ReplyDeleteLove everything, love love the girl looking like a zonbi.... she looks very wild. It reminded me of my oldest daugter drawings, she is also "fanatic" about drawing, and she is starting to do comics, wich is very funny, I wish I could draw so nicely...
ReplyDeleteGood work for you :)
Thanks for showing us the lead up process rather than just the finished drawing. I've been trying to persuade a knitter that preliminary swatches are not a waste of time. She is an artist, so perhaps I should say that the process is similar to preliminary sketches - they are all important to the final product.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing us the whole process rather than just the final drawing. I've been trying to persuade a friend that knitting swatches is not a waste of time. She is an artist, so perhaps I should say that swatches are like preliminary sketches and are all important to the final product.
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