for love of drawing

Firstly, sorry for the super crappy scan. Honestly, it doesn't look as anemic on my sketch book. I wish I could take a hi-res picture, but my desktop is still in a box and this laptop can't handle the processing.

Ok. So I started this drawing without sketching. That is the task I've set for myself in the following weeks. I'm one of those people for whom drawing is a process similar to labor before giving birth. It's long, arduous, and sweaty. And that's just starting a sketch.

The topic this week is "Unfold." Going straight to color, I didn't really have a plan. Every new piece of the illustration kind of unfolded itself , which, at times, both surprised and aggravated me. What I realized, though, is that in trying to do a more detailed work, I set myself to fail the exercise. Had it been the loose, more gestural style (like in Pink and Purple Garden) I wouldn't have gotten stuck in the same rut as I did when trying to do a sketch in the first place. I was too anxious to make everything perfect, which is the opposite of what I had aimed to do - to let the creativity flow. Instead, it took me 3 days of staring at my sketchbook and second guessing myself before I bit the bullet and just applied color.

Well, here's to hoping for a better next drawing :)