NO signature today. I think I will sign the backs of my originals unless someone asks. And if that is the case then it will be all big and gaudy.
As for this piece, I like it. I wanted a towner like building and it happened. I guess that is the prize for setting such low expectations. You can easily obtain the end result. Regardless this is pretty cool. Taking what was inspirational from my drawing yesterday and incorporating that into todays drawing. This picture shows what my other ones have hidden. That being, when I use my brush pen it has a completely different texture than my nib pen. I am still grappling with the idea of using the bush pen. For one it is great at covering a large area quickly. However the ink just isn't the same and it looks way different in person. I am concerned about how both inks will age together. Anyway See you tomorrow.
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It's a fish, it's a boat, it's a space ship.... It's a fish boat space craft....
Well this did do the thing I wanted. have motion and look like its moving. It did not how ever end up like I thought it would. That bing a crazy mixed media piece and showcase my representational drawing skills too. Despite having technically all day to draw I chose to go outside and get some fresh air. Along with work on some other tasks I have. So this ended up not going as planned. It still looks good. and I like the weird shape in the upper left that squiggly line. I think that would be fun to bass tomorrows drawing off of. Looking at it more I dont know if I like all the negative space. Like sure it's fine. But, I feel like what this project is making me do is want to think more about what I am putting on the page before I actually touch pen to paper. That is kind of scary. And against how I have approached this style of drawing from the beginning. I wonder what a drawing would look like if I did a little under study or under drawing with a hard pencil and then did the final drawing over it... I want that to be next years me problem but I don't know if I can wait that long to start making longer and larger drawings. Anyway see you tomorrow. I was pretty indifferent about this piece until the last 5 minutes of it.
As I was drawing this morning I was pretty distracted and my mind was wandering all over the place. But I put my self at the table and over the paper to do the work. I wanted to make this look different then what I have been doing. I don't want to just draw the same picture every time I sit down (though that might be fun... looking at you week 40). So I decided I would have no sharp edges on the out side and have a closed shape. If you watch my video you'll see where I start almost the dotted left of what is the drawing now. Working my way up and over. I was holding ridged to that plan all the way up until I turned the paper to this orientation. That is when I way a very slight impression of a face! And my brain was like "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO! You have been here a thousand times before!"So I started to modify the shape to resemble a face. A skull esk zombie thing to be more precise. But hey now I like it. Also tomorrow is going to have a weird new sub theme going on. That being chaotic minds. So lets see where that takes this next week shall we. See you tomorrow. I like my new signature. Not sure if it will stay but for now it's ok. Today I have a hand full of other work to do in the morning before I started drawing. I have an Etsy shop here I sell slings (check it out https://www.etsy.com/shop/HilltopHurler) I had to ship some orders. So I had less time for this drawing,
So I took out the bigger nib and went to work. The size was faster but not as helpful as I had initially planned on. The challenge came from having to adjust my mark making away from what I was doing with the smaller nib. I kept trying to go back to small movements and little details. However in the beginning the nib was overloaded with ink and that's why there is two black markings on the page. I had initially planned on an open and airy piece. where I would use less ink and more negative space. However the ink had something different to say about that. and with in the first 2 mins I had ink puddle number one. Quickly followed by ink puddle number two. That did change the entire dynamic of the drawing but I fell like in a few days I will like this drawing or take something positive away from it. But right now I think it could be better. well I think it just needed more time. anyway see you tomorrow. I have a new paper that I am using. it is a Bristol Vellum paper. I must say it is very nice. And way better than using the Stonehenge Drawing paper. The main reason is that the Vellum paper has a smoother finish and my nib doesn't get caught in the paper as easily. Which makes for less fixing of random extra ink and thick lines. I will move forward with a similar paper for the majority of this project. Unless I tryout pencils or something.
This drawing was fun it is bigger 6x9 instead of 4.5x5.5 But that also means I needed twice as long on it. I did get up even earlier today so that definitely helped. I'm not rushing around right now. I wanted to get back to trying out curved shapes. Or some kind of spiral. it kind of got there. Starting off with the black dots first and working the spiral to that really did influence how much of a spin I could put on it. Though I feel if I started with a smaller center circle and a pencil draft of the shape I was going for it would have been tighter. However that also feels against the spirit of these drawings. That spirit being more improvisational and current inspiration instead of a predetermined and mapped out drawing from the beginning. I like how much space the drawing takes up while still not being overly heavy in any spot. What do you think? See you tomorrow! Day 5 woof. So it was really hard to get up today. Shifting my day around is really hard. But ill keep it up and make it work for me. Cause after all this isn't about the art right now it's about creating the drive to be an artist full time. Putting in the work regardless of how you feel when you show up at the canvas (peace of paper).
And today I was all about the simple easy non detailed drawing. That is until I sat down and put pen to paper. Did I have time for an intricate drawing? No. Did I have any idea what this drawing was going to be before I started? So it was easier. No. Did I want to work hard to finish on time and make this post today? No. Well here we are. I did have to rush the bottom half a bit which I am a little regretful of. It could have been lighter and then I would not have felt obligated to go back and darken up the top half as much. About 1/5 of the way through I had made a hand full of the "mast" like structures and was thinking what would a Beholder ghost ship look like (this is a beholder https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Beholder) So after having that thought I sort of went with it. I do really enjoy drawing the mast shapes. Seeing what I can do with them and how they add the the overall feel. Depending on how they are modified changes the overall mood of the piece. This definitely felt darker the more I added hanging elements to them. What do you think o this piece? I would love to hear other peoples words! See you tomorrow! OH man today is way more stressful then I thought it would be. Here's the deal. I had a long weekend and the last three days have been all so easy! Wake up make art chill. Well now I'm off to work in (looks at clock) 40 minutes (regrets looking at clock) and well im not totally ready.
But this drawing is cool! So there is that. I decided to keep my paper horizontal today. Which was really fun. I actually don't do may drawings in this style horizontally. Once I get onto bigger paper I want to give it a try again. see what happens. It definitely gives a different vibe when trying to work on it.I did start off my just drawing a big diagonal line and seeing where that took me.... oh crap, I have to get to work. Also uploaded this mornings video upside down so I just had to fix that. Maybe tomorrow I wake up even earlier and see how that helps. Link button below! check out the video! See you tomorrow! P.S. I truly am a morning person I just have so much anxiety that I stop thinking smooth.... you know? So I actually do use Cream colored paper... I feel like I should clarify why this is something I'm starting this with and not talking about the art. You see I have a white balance setting on the editing app I use. It could have turned this Black and White. However the image doesn't actually look like that. Though now that I see this on my computer screen I'm not sure it is as saturated as it appears... ok yeah it is I just put some white paper next to it and man did that change my opinion on the color of the paper. Anyway now you're not being lied to anymore you're welcome.
This art thing now... I went back through some old drawings yesterday and they really inspired me to try out this today. I had an eyeball theme for a while in the beginning. But to be honest I kind of forgot how I drew them this morning so I just went with what came to mind instead. I also didn't want to draw "real" looking eyes this small and with this pen (not yet). So, for me now this looks totally different then my old ones too. Because instead of coming off as eyes they look more like orbs of energy inside a structure. Ok, maybe the whole conversation about this being floating cities really got to me yesterday and now I am totally on board with that theme. But let's explore that anyway shall we. If this were a space with many spires and levels they would need a way to power it. Magic obviously works but in D&D (ok you caught me I'm a nerd) there is a neat setting (Eberron for those that care) that harness Elementals (those are creature) and trap them to use their energy to power their vehicles. So this could be a wizards tower trapping air elementals to stay aloft. Or fire elementals and it's like a big hot air ballon. Also I bet it would be warm like a tropical island... (I wish I was on a tropical island) which brings me to my next point. My room is cold. Why does this matter? Because I have noticed that the colder my hand gets the more it is likely to get stuck in a position while drawing. Or (at best?) jerk around in its trial around the paper. This comes from an accident years ago which ended up in my second thumb joint (the one where your thumb connects to your hand) getting mostly fused together and drastically changing the way I can draw. So what this means is in my morning drawing sessions I also have to keep that in mind when I am about to make a mark to make sure I don't mess things up too bad. Along with that my marks are not always the correct pressure I'm going for either. Anyway I off for the day. I guess I didn't really talk about the art today but more about thought on it and me. Oh well. Still hate that signature Hit the button below for the YouTube video (my best so far) See you tomorrow! P.S. I have really been into LoFi music as of late. So if any of you have an artist of band you would suggest that would be much appreciated. Daily Drawing: Day 2Today I didn't make the same size mistake as I did yesterday. My paper was 4 1/2 x 5 1/2. So I made to opposite mistake. I think this is actually too small. But, I have 3 more pieces of paper this size so I will see what comes of it over the next couple of days. Maybe it will grow on me. Anyway getting to this drawing. It was fun and not as long as the last one. I have been exploring what I would imagine as floating cityscape would look like for a while. This is definitely still inline with that. I really like the play with "weight" that I have been getting to. In the hanging "rooms" on the bottom of this piece. Also all of them need multiple ways to get into it. That lets me play around with what a bridge could be also which is fun. The towers or spires on the top are ok. I think this is where the paper size really hampered what I wanted. I naturally made it small so I didn't accidentally push the edge of the canvas. But I definitely want those towers to be taller and have more walkways between them.
I saw the heart shape on the main structure very early in the drawing about 1/4 of the way in. I decided to keep it. Probably because on my own current longing for love more than anything else. As you look around the composition it can be seen influencing the rest of the negative space also. But I fought the urge to fill this with hearts (gross). I did manage to keep things lighter today and only had darks more or less where I wanted them. It is hard to keep all the lines as thick as I want and still move around quickly. The nib of the pen will dig into the paper quite often and pull up some paper. That usually results in my next line being thicker than I expect. I am getting more comfortable with it though. So soon I'll start messing around more with pressure and see what and where that takes me. See you tomorrow! Here is the link to the video! P.S. I hate my signatures so far. They look just awful. I need to figure out what im doing with that asap. This is the Day 1 drawing, it was a little ambitious. At 9 x 11 the page was probably too large. But I am happy I went for it. Moving forward I will be doing smaller ones for sure. I have been doing more open pieces like this as of recently. It was a gradual change from a few years ago when I started doing this style of drawing. I think way more about the negative space in the middle now than I did before. I am also really liking the black voids in the structure of it. I kind of wish it wasn't as dark in the large mass at the top of the piece. That isn't in line with everything else as much. But that's what you get when you are using pen and ink I guess. I will see what tomorrow brings and go into that piece with a little bit lighter line work.
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