It was one of my longer things and I had originall started writing it as an exercise for me to have something to illustrate but after 2000 odd words and only having just gotten past what can be considered an introduction, it seems I gave up and moved on. Thing is, looking through it now and seeing the chapter headings laid out, the story came back to me and I'm getting the urge to put pen to paper and start the srcibbles again.
I've so far typed it all up into a word file so I can add to it at work on my breaks and I've dug out a nice and clean note book to start sketching into again because that's the thing I think I really miss; just drawing.
When I was a kid, drawing was for fun but these days, the drawing that I do is work and is nothing like the carefree doodlings that I used to do. In fact, the last real bit of drawing I did was a couple of A3 sort of posters that I did for ahem... someone... and that was aeons ago.
Actually, scratch that, the last bit of drawing I did was of a car but that was just a scale up of a photo so that doesn't really count.
Here is a mid stage pic is in case you're interested.
On second thoughts, seeing as I had recorded much of the process, here's the whole lot.
It's not much to look at and the dodgy photography has distorted it somewhat. It also looks better when I bump up the contrast and level out the histogram.... That is me rationalising it. I only really did that to prove to myself that I could still do it as well, I really haven't drawn anything for a long time and it was interesting to find out if you can forget something like that.
I ahve to admit that it was much harder than I thought it would be but not in the sense that it was difficult. I found that I couldn't concerntrate and my hand kept wanting to loosely mark a line when I wanted to put down hard detail.
How much was that was me not being able to draw it and how much was it down to me knowing that it's wasier to make a sketch look good then it is to achieve a photo-realistic image?
As you can see, so far it is halfway between both and I still haven't decided which way to fall to complete it.
But anyway....
As I said, I have opened a fresh sketch book and I have a sort of plan; to make a page a day.
Let's see how that get's on.
