Saturday, April 18, 2009

Impossible Sleep #2

Here's the picture I started first yesterday for Illustration Friday, but I had to wait while the wash dried. So I didn't get back to it until hours later. What I discovered was that if you wait until everything is truly completely dry, then you can rub the mask off without anything smearing. Duh. I'm usually too impatient.

And though I really like the texture on her impossible thoughts, and her face (which I modeled for myself in a mirror), I'm wondering what in the world I'm doing making pictures like this. I HATE stressing. I should be making serene pictures! (But then, I didn't make up this week's topic--and this has been the first one where I had the idea and image the second I saw the topic. Usually I do some free-writing, sketching various ideas, before finally deciding on something.)

11 comments:

  1. If you like digital art, Check out:
    http://www.sumopaint.com/web/
    Its a free program. Its fun to just doodle around with it.

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  2. i can relate! i've been sleeping at 4 or 5 am lately tsk tsk. great illustration!

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  3. I know the feeling; I hate when I can't go back to sleep. I really like the various textures in this piece. It really makes her agitation and frustrations palpable.

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  4. hehe, I also can undertand...those phases of imsomnio!! Impossibility completly!
    Your ink, ballpen, drawings are fantastic, and i see also your "searching"and sforces and so I like them even more! ;-)
    thanks for the kind comment, and advises :-)

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  5. Great job on this. It illustrates perfectly how I feel when I wake up at 3am and can't get back to sleep.

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  6. I know you and I like very much what I am getting to know.

    Great picture.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  7. Nice drawings - really captures the feeling!

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  8. These are wondeful drawings, great subject matter, textures, contrast, focus. It looks like compostion comes naturally to you! I wish my dead of night wakeful hours could generate so much creative energy. Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks for visiting my blog too!

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  9. I can completely relate to this picture. I love the facial expression.

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