A Bad Day to Draw
I chose three interesting female faces to tackle with grey toned marker pens. I began well motivated, keen and positive. Sadly I didn’t finish well motivated keen and positive.
The first two went wrong from the start, marks were too heavy, too light, in the wrong place, too quick, too slow, too thick, too thin. It was a bad BAD day! Both had to be abandoned before I lost it.
Defying all good sense I began on the third which to my surprise started to show some promise. The failure of the first two seemed to be down purely to poor execution, but with the third, the pens seemed to be doing more or less what I was telling them. But then again the subject did seem to be particularly interesting.
With a drawn, gaunt face, penetrative stare and hooded head, it didn’t seem I could mess this one up however much I tried. Poor technique or poor choices? I’m too pissed off to analyse at the moment.
With drawing being an athletic ability I suppose you have to accept that some days you just won’t be on form and some days you will. Perhaps sometimes you just need a little warm up before you can produce anything not worth burning!
