Richard Million posted: " Hello for a weekly Tuesday post. It's been another few days passed, which means another few pages done in my current sketchbook. Let's not waste anymore time and just get on with the main content of this post. My favorite work that I've done in these "
Hello for a weekly Tuesday post. It's been another few days passed, which means another few pages done in my current sketchbook. Let's not waste anymore time and just get on with the main content of this post.
My favorite work that I've done in these past few days was a page where I was perhaps at my loosest and messiest, which meant bringing out a glue stick for help. At first, this page was just starting out as a slightly more typical page in which I just doodled a few things here and there with the first little drawing that I did in the upper lefthand corner, and that little doodle was based in an image that I have running in my head when I go to the bathroom at night in which I imagine glancing over at the shower curtain and seeing someone or something peering over the top. Since that's what pops in my mind and makes me slightly paranoid while just trying to wash up for the night, I decided to move a bit of that from my mind and onto the page.
Since I started drawing directly onto the sketchbook page itself, it would make sense that I would continue working this way, but that quickly changed as, for whatever reason, I just started doodling on the sheets of printer paper I have lying around my workspace as pieces of extra and protective scrap paper. I believe it's because I sometimes do an extra quick doodle on this scrap paper to get an idea of what I want to do for a slightly less quick doodle or drawing in my sketchbook, and when it came to this particular drawing of someone peering around a shower curtain, I just started out trying to get a basic idea of what I wanted to draw before I kept working and working on it until the point that I had put about as much time and detail into it as I had for the previously drawing. Of course, because I had put a not insubstantial amount of time and detail into this particular drawing in this little session, I didn't want to just leave it on this scrap sheet to be shoved away somewhere, so I decided to bring out a glue stick and a pair of scissors.
Surprisingly, I had not before this moment actually glued anything into the sketchbook I'm currently filling up. Not even a sticky note. Well, that unglued streak came to an end as I started making up for that absence quite a bit on this one page as I began cutting my person-peering drawing from the scrap paper and glued that piece onto the in-progress sketchbook page. With that first step, I decided to not stop there and just continued cutting out little doodles and drawings that I had done or was doing on my scrap paper at the moment and just glued them into my sketchbook.
My favorite little drawing that joined my sketchbook through this method was another morbid one depicting a person's detached head staring up from a toilet bowl. Ha, I'm pretty sure that was influenced by a horror movie I know about to have seen clips or images from but that I haven't sat down and watched. I just really like the perspective as the viewer is looking down into the toilet combined with the messed-up-yet-morbidly-humorous idea.
Overall, I like how this page feels especially like a full collection with the number of drawings as well as the sections of paper glued next to and on top of one another.
Then, as a quick little addition of taping more stuff into my sketchbook, I was inspired by the fact that I saw the original 1992 Candyman for the first time just the day before writing this post and just about loved it. As a result, I felt like doing a quick ballpoint pen drawing of Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle. When I did this drawing with just the black ballpoint pen, I honestly messed up one of her eyes quite a bit, so I used a sticky note to cover up that area so I could just draw it again. I actually have heard artists mention using stick notes as a way of "correcting" mistakes in drawings but hadn't tried it out for myself before now. Well, first time for everything.
Since I did this quick portrait on another sheet of scrap paper, I also cut out and glued this piece into my sketchbook with the added step of then painting around and partially on the glued-in paper with regular, inexpensive acrylic paint. The paint didn't cover up the edges of the glued-in paper as well as I would have thought and also didn't cover up a stray pen mark that I had made on the paper, but oh, well. I don't mind too much how this messy page turned out as I'm happy with it in a way and feel inspired to do some more Candyman-themed drawings, especially since I'm kind of in the mood to actually rewatch the original again so soon.
Well, I believe that that is all for this Tuesday post, so until this Friday when I can show how I am filling up even more of the gradually dwindling number of pages in my current sketchbook, thanks for reading, stay safe, and have a pleasant rest of your week.
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