Being clinically insane has its benefits. I did this drawing a long time ago and recently found it on tracing paper. Tracing paper is my way of saying, "wow, what a great concept....I'll do it later..." The main issue being I hate transferring images. It takes so long and if you have crappy carbon paper or are transferring onto textured paper it just means having to go over all the lines again in pencil later. I do this anyway so its always annoying. The point is I did this complicated drawing with a light source, yay! I should have left it at that instead of turning it into a pity party. I'm pretty happy with it. I did it at JJ's moms house and wish I had brought my favorite reference illustration with me (Peter DeSeve's New Yorker cover of the lobsters escaping). Anyway, it turned out well and maybe I won't have to do it over.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Animals at Play
Being clinically insane has its benefits. I did this drawing a long time ago and recently found it on tracing paper. Tracing paper is my way of saying, "wow, what a great concept....I'll do it later..." The main issue being I hate transferring images. It takes so long and if you have crappy carbon paper or are transferring onto textured paper it just means having to go over all the lines again in pencil later. I do this anyway so its always annoying. The point is I did this complicated drawing with a light source, yay! I should have left it at that instead of turning it into a pity party. I'm pretty happy with it. I did it at JJ's moms house and wish I had brought my favorite reference illustration with me (Peter DeSeve's New Yorker cover of the lobsters escaping). Anyway, it turned out well and maybe I won't have to do it over.
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I've never worked much with tracing paper, seems like a good idea when you see something in a magazine that might add to your idea, so instead of drawing it you could quickly put it onto tracing paper....
and I love the image you made, the colours are so rich and it reminds me of childhood!
Yeah, tracing paper is a necessary evil when you do a sketch and want to transfer it to better paper or you paint an illo and want to do another version. It makes life easier ultimately to transfer.
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