Often it seems I struggle with WHAT to draw. Some days nothing seems quite right and sometimes I fall back on drawing from another drawing. In this case, I was on the plane coming home with sketchbook on lap... the food was bad, the air musty, my neighbors noisy and the time neverending. Working from a drawing I already know well (see postings of the last couple of days) frees me up to concentrate on other things – texture maybe, or darks and lights, or simplicity. I love for example, to make "ink with stick" pictures from soft graphite continuous tones; everything gets edited down to basics right away. But for this drawing, it was really just a record of time spent in simple human activity.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Drawing from drawing
Often it seems I struggle with WHAT to draw. Some days nothing seems quite right and sometimes I fall back on drawing from another drawing. In this case, I was on the plane coming home with sketchbook on lap... the food was bad, the air musty, my neighbors noisy and the time neverending. Working from a drawing I already know well (see postings of the last couple of days) frees me up to concentrate on other things – texture maybe, or darks and lights, or simplicity. I love for example, to make "ink with stick" pictures from soft graphite continuous tones; everything gets edited down to basics right away. But for this drawing, it was really just a record of time spent in simple human activity.
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