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I thought I’d share this with you all, my hypothetical readers. This is a special drawing on a piece of paper that’s 24′ x 20′ — this is much bigger than my usual drawings, which are just on generic computer paper. I was wondering if I had more room if it would provide the opportunity for more complicated images and so far I’m not disappointed. I also thought this image would be demonstrative of my ‘process’, in that you can still see all of the random lines, as well as the main image I highlighted with pen.

It took me three hours to draw, interpret, and highlight this image. The drawing just involved me putting down lines that felt right — and I might say, it felt nice to be able to make bigger sweeping lines. I’d like to get a piece of paper that’s like six foot by four foot. Oh man, that would be awesome. But I’m distracting myself! It took the bulk of my time to interpret this image, though. The big complicating factor here is that the mess of sprawling can be viewed in four different ways, which essentially gives you four different images. I have to decide which of the ways has the most promising or most distinct image and then highlight that.

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As for the images I didn’t draw in this one, it probably would’ve looked mostly similar any which way I approached the drawing. There were all of these faces in the lines regardless of which way you classified ‘up’ and ‘down’ — and I’m pretty certain they were supposed to represent me. One direction had a weak image of me lying on my bed with my legs leaning against each other at the knee and coming at the viewer; another had two people with out stretched hands that fused into each other. Both of these weak images had random faces behind them. I decided I liked this one the best because the idea of one mane of flowing hair connecting to two or more people was an interesting one to me.

 

2 replies on “Work in Progress”

Alex, I am delighted that you explained your process on your website so that those of us who are not artistically savvy can truly appreciate how you transform lines into a completed creation. Looking forward to seeing the final interpretation.

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