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:)