It had been a pretty full day with family get-togethers and house cleanings. It wasn’t until late last night that I got started on my creative thing. It’s always tough when I let the creative thing wait until the end of the day.
Lately, I’ve been interested in doing more drawing. Except placing myself into creative methods or situations that I don’t usually do or have a lot of experience with. So late last night I decided to hit the streets and look for a nice picture to draw. I wanted to practice more using my rapidograph pens. I found myself ending up at the same place I went for my post from Day 076 on top of Bastanchury hill, amongst the oil derricks. Instead of drawing the derricks I was attracted to this lone lamp-post with two trees beside it.
I sat under a tree and spent about an hour drawing the picture above. I realized that many ink illustrators probably use brushes for larger washes of black. Overall, I feel good about my little drawing. I found myself battling the urge to outline everything first and then shade in, which is similar to how I sketch. That method doesn’t seem to work as well with this medium.
Just a note: In future posts to come you might find me practicing my drawing a bit more because I am leading up to a special dry-erase animation week where every night I will continue work on a freeform dry erase cartoon. Each day you’ll be able to see a new portion that I’ve finished. At the end of the week I hope to have something somewhat substantial for you to watch.
In other news: my Autechre-Style music video finally finished rendering and you can see the final product on my previous post, Day 114 / Autechere-Style Music Video
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