I wrote in my last blog write-up that I’ve been drawing my little people dancing too much of recent. While the colours and general happiness is probably visually pleasing to the human eye, I was thinking that my style was getting a bit stuck. Dancing happy people make people smile, but I don’t want to get “typecast” into drawing only that.
So, there I was sitting at my desk… staring at the blank piece of paper in front of me thinking about what to draw for the umpteenth time. My mind was blank so I couldn’t draw anything.
When I get to this point (being blank), my general rule is to draw anything… a line, a dot, a twirl or a little person. This time, I chose a little person. Then I drew another. And another. I was going to draw the entire page full of little people but then I decided this would just be a way of killing time in life.
I had about 20 little people all bunched together (one person seems to be flying in the air… we’ll just say he has magic powers) and I had to make the big decision of what to do next. Draw a big hand holding these people! At least no one’s dancing and I’m illustrating something that I can see (in this case, my left hand).
Well, now I had to think of what I wanted to put underneath the hand. I didn’t want to draw anyone dancing, mind you, so I started drawing circles with faces in them. Don’t ask me why I do these kind of things?
Sometimes when I start something I can’t stop and in this case the rest of the page was full of these circles. I then set off to make each circle somewhat individual…
6 hours later (dumping in the colour is a pretty arduous task) I was finished (granted over a couple of days).
Am I satisfied with this illustration? I don’t know yet. I stared at it for a few minutes after thinking I completed it and the colour balance didn’t make very much sense (which might be a good thing). My “patterns” with the background could’ve been a bit tighter… (or maybe not). The “carpet” would look good in a children’s horror cartoon. Well, you can’t be 100% satisfied every time… or can you?
