Drew a little kid dressed as a pirate in the new pencil sketchbook today. I was right, it does look weird to have a face on green paper. But oh, he came out so good! I'm most proud of the nose, it came out looking like a photo (in my opinion.) Woot! The whole face looks so realistic it's scary. I didn't think I could do such a thing. It took five hours or so to complete. That's just too long for me. I like guerilla sketching mo' better.
I don't have any fixative so I used White Rain hairspray. I may regret that in years to come but I would regret the smudgy drawing tomorrow.
Usually when I work in another sketchbook I scan the drawing, make a thumbnail copy and paste it in this journal to keep a chronological record of All Things Creative. This journal is getting too fat with all the paste-ups so I decided just to draw him again. With my brain immersed in the world of pencil drawing I've missed doing quick sketchy-sketches in pen then mucking around in the paintpan.
"Hey," I thought, "I can fix that."
He came out looking kinda like a quirky Jack from a deck of cards. I ought to draw a big red "J" and a red diamond in the upper left-hand corner. That would be cool.
"I believe that what truly matters in the making of art is not what the final piece looks like or sounds like, not what it is worth or not worth but what newness gets added to the universe in the process of the piece itself becoming."
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That would be fun to see the J and a red diamond.
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