Layers
We wear layers on a daily basis. We adjust them to every occasion. We mask our desires, we cover our sorrows, sheath our nakedness. Over time we gain more and more layers, they become thicker, difficult to change, sometimes even impossible to remove. Time equips us with a thick skin, builds a shell around us. Experience sometimes makes the thick shell as brittle as a egg shell, fragile and labile as a snowflake, it is dissolving in the blink of an eye and leaving us naked, vulnerable to everything what life brings to us.
Ripples
Everything we do, leaves a mark. Every action we take sets our surroundings in motion, changes them. We leave imprints, traces of ourselves. We change ourselves and we change others.
Echoes
All what we do, comes back to us. Shouting comes back as whispering, whispering comes back as sough . We want to be heard, but our words come back to us, bounces off empty walls. Better this than silence, is it not? Is it?
I have to admit that what I like most about creating is the process itself. I do not like, when the work is finished. It's rarely gives me actual satisfaction, much more often – some kind of relief.
I really like to drag the process along as long as possible. I like to change my mind in the process, to erase, dissolve, re-draw it. I like the sheer dynamism of the work. I often spoil promising drawing
because of this. I just can't help myself!
I lose myself so much in the process that I stop thinking about basics like: proportion, perspective, golden division or good composition. Can I call this the joy of creation? Or perhaps the mindlessness of creation?
I devoted yesterday evening and most of today to playing with this drawing. I started without any plan, which is odd to me, I usually have a general idea in my head. No. Not this time!
Today I let myself get carried away by my subconscious.
I started with an 'F' pencil to sketch the general outline of the first figure, then I worked mainly with a black 'toma' pen, in the meantime using solvent and continuing with the pen. To bring the first figure to the foreground I added a darker background and I used a white gel pen to emphasise the light falling on specific parts of the body.
I changed the concept a few times during the work, but this can be seen quite easily in the pictures. It was only at the end that the words 'layers', 'shadows', 'reflections', 'circles' started to pop into my head.
I wish you a good weekend,
yours
Strega Azure
Drawing & pics are my authorship if not stated otherwise, all rights reserved @strega.azure ©
I used pencil 'F', black superfine pen 'Toma, white gel-pen 'Gelly Roll 08 Sakura, and dissolvent.
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I think you should go with "the joy of creation". You're creativity is really over the bar.
One could find it very hard to believe that your didn't think of this before you started drawing because this looks absolutely amazing!
I love art and when I see creative things like this, I just get overwhelmed. At first, I thought it was just the man in front, but along the line, the figured behind came in, followed by the one on the side.
I really really like the finishing of this piece. Bravo✨
#dreemport.
Only after I finished this piece I realized that nearly whole day passed by, so all and all I think yeah, I had to have some joy there:) There is such thing called 'automatic drawing' - you would try to get as occupied during the drawing as possible(by conversation with someone for example) so effect of your work it is purely subconscious act. I am trying to do that from time to time, and effects are interesting too! But here 0 ideas at the beginning apart 'maybe something figurative today? guy for a change? That was it. More came later on, during working on the piece:)
Thank you for stepping by, and I really appreciate your comments! and praises😉 of course 😄
I'm wondering how this would come out though. But like you said, the effects would be interesting.
Thanks for always sharing amazing pieces with us.
Sometimes that would be just shapes, lines, very rarely something figurative, but happens :) it is good fun, and you don't have to be much skilled to try that.
Well, I just got myself a box of acrylic paint. I hope to see how creative can get.
Great news! Good choice, they dry quickly, so kinda force you to work without hesitation:) Looking forward to see what is on your mind in colour :)
Honestly, I'm looking forward to it too
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I love the write-ups that accompany your artwork. Always a deeper philosophical slant... insights for human progression and consumption to complement the artwork progressions that you share 🤗 This piece echoing the human condition is well constructed and beautifully drawn. I think there are a number of stages too that I would have loved to have seen as a standalone final product in itself. This would present well as a framed progression of maybe 3 pieces. Very nicely done, Strega! !PIZZA !PIMP
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Really glad you like it!
When I'm working on a drawing, I usually come up with loose words, shreds of meaning to be fair. Only at the end they take some sort of shape so that I can express them in words.
It is really cool to have all those pictures, because this way I can always get back to particular picture and work on it digitally, and take drawing in different direction :)
Love this! !LUV
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