I previously didn't want to do work in progress scans because (1) it might take the impact away from the final image (2) the final image might be a disappointment to those who felt the sketch showed more promise, particularly since I'll be coloring some of these and I'm not that confident about my paint skills yet but it really needs to happen (3) I'm worried I'll get lazier if the gist of the image is already there for everyone to see, that'll I'll maybe feel more complacent about finishing; sometimes I talked about drawing castles so much that I forget I haven't actually done that many finished pictures with castles.
On the other hand (1) maybe this will be a good thing that takes the pressure off a little, maybe I'll draw more because a certain stage of these drawings are saved and I don't have to worry about the images being completely destroyed in an accident before they are seen in any form, because some of these take a very long time even if I was drawing as regularly as I should (2) I think a few of these are going to be my best work and maybe being too precious about the impact they make when they're finished will steal away from future efforts, as if I'm putting them on too high a pedestal when I should think about always going onto better things all the time.
There are way more unfinished drawings but most of them are even more vague than these.
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I'm always interested to see this kind of thing. Are these preliminary sketches or will you work directly onto these? Will be good to see the finished work to compare them with
I will work directly onto all of them except the 4th which is an earlier draft I can't use anymore.
It's often interesting to see unfinished drawings.
I love looking at sketches- even mistakes! It puts me more into the artist's head. I wish someone would put together a book of famous artist's first drafts and sketches. Ha, it's interesting to see that you write your notes directly onto the page.
These are beautiful sketches, i wish you'll be willing to do more "scratchy style" stuff, Alfred Kubin style.
Keeping more than one style going is a great way to close the gap between your imagination and your production.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "scratchy" but I would like to use more graphite and paint eventually.
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