#2
So, getting right down to it, I’ve been doing some quick drawings and paintings in my sketchbooks, starting to plan out and research just what I want to look into with this work of mine. A thing I haven’t really done before that I’m doing this time is keeping my sketchbooks as purely creative mediums, rather than as a place to write in as well as draw. While I am making some brief notes next to some of my drawings, I am keeping a separate journal to make more detailed notes and to use as a kind of diary, and at the moment, I’m finding this to be a much more useful way of composing my work. I’m actually getting somewhere with it!
This post is primarily a way to show what I’ve been doing in my sketchbooks so far, both my treasured Moleskin which I’ve been painting in as well as drawing, and my neat little recycled paper sketchbook which has given me a really good platform on which I can make quick sketches that I can use as plans for future work, or to work into on my laptop.
Most of my work so far has been at a rather small scale because it’s basically all sketchbook work right now, but if that isn’t a good place to start then I don’t know what is. You’ve got to have a starting point, right?
Anyway, I’ve been working with descriptions of specific types of faeries that I’ve found in books and online and creating my own perceptions of the creatures that have been described over the ages. Although this has resulted in a couple of sketchbook pages being covered in what are basically just pictures of seals… but they are actually faeries! Just seal faeries. It looks better than it sounds, I promise.
I’ve left my rough notes on the pictures for convenience sake in some hope of explaining myself better. It just boils down to whether you can read my handwriting or not.
