This is my third attempt at playing with drawing in the negative.
This is what I was talking about last time... using the white to uncover the drawing beneath the black paper. It's so hard to do... make that shift from laying down the darks on white paper to using white to uncover. BUT, what an amazing thing, to discover an manipulate white!
Love you using the different whites, for more tones. nicely done
I will definitely buy more shades of white. I actually really have to because my white crayons have almost run out 😒 That is actually main reason why I've added some colour to my last drawing 😄
Let me know what do you think!
You have very poetically described my despair 🤣🤣🤣
I keep feeling that I lack a bit of freedom in this kind of drawing because it's very easy to mess it up. As I'm drawing with pencil - I'm really tweaking and erasing a lot along the way, and at all stages of the work.
Here, when I've totally messed something up, I use a razor blade to scrape out the unfortunate line or a black ink-pen to hide the unfortunate lines:)
And BTW I tore up the first few sketches into tiny pieces because I was so angry with myself that I had done so badly. But I don't count those approaches (after all, there's no evidence;)
It's been said the Thomas Edison found hundreds of ways to NOT make a working lightbulb. We do not have any of the ones that failed: he destroyed them. but we do have his original working lightbulbs. So, yep... there is no evidence of your failures, except top say this:
Each very successful amazing piece of art you create, comes o the back of many intense and laborious hours of prior attempts. No one creates a masterpiece the first time sitting down, it takes thousand sof hours of sketches and blending, and color treatments, to get technique right.
You, amazing artist, have created some wonderful art!
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Aww! Really appreciate all the compliments:) But feel free to give me constructive criticism, I would really like that.
I would add that even though I get angry if something doesn't meet my standards right away I actually enjoy the process itself very much. For me it is even more important part than final sketch.
To be fair - I should really keep my failed drawings, just so I know where I am at. But it feels so good to rip stuff apart sometimes:)