WEEK 1

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Sketching to me is both relaxing and stressful. If I know that nobody is gonna see my drawings then I find it less pressuring, and I can sketch whatever I want because no one is going to see, judge, hate or love it. However when I can see that someone is watching me or If I'm making an art piece that is for someone/something then I get a rush of pressure constantly reminding me that everything needs to be at the highest quality.

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When I started this sketch I wasn't thinking about whether or not it would mean anything to anyone, it was just a blank page that needed to be filled out in a book. I was lost in my thoughts, jamming out to music with my headphones on, just letting the pencils and pens flow like I usually do. I started drawing the girl first in a H pencil which you can get peeks of in the close-ups above. Through using some simple foundation steps I constructed the face and filled in the details such as eyes, hair, lips and freckles. I was feeling quite satisfied with it after inking over it with a fine-liner pen.

 

However, the struggle began while I was sketching the body, which can be seen through me just using rough sketchy lines instead of confident strong line work. I spent a while focusing on improving it all and it became a process; draw, rub out, pressure builds up, redraw, rub out, pressure builds up etc. it went on for a little while again and again, it became annoying but not frustrating. I've studied anatomy a little bit but I couldn't seem to get it exactly right, and at the time it didn't faze me either because no one was going to see it anyway. It was just a page in a book.

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I decided that I'd just move on and started drawing ferns, trees, flowers, vines and other plants. But this time I wasn't focusing, I just let go and pen began flowing and the sketching became effortless. All the pressure had just gone away and I felt like the sketch had somehow been salvaged.

 

It gave me an idea.

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This whole 'sketch' became a project for me personally to grow and reflect on my art abilities. It became a challenge for me to overcome a boundary and I saw it as an opportunity to get back into painting. So I drafted up a design sketch to hopefully turn this rough sketch into a fine art piece.

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I began to plan some of the Aesthetic aspects of what would become a painting; the layout, colour scheme, themes, meanings. But i still had to figure out how to get the while 'body' situation figured out and after some thinking, I came up with an excellent solution to transfer this foundation onto a canvas.