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After finding that there is something wrong with the colors in my drawings of faces I started experimenting with the color purple for my Purple music drawing. Very soon I discovered that to get the effect I want, I’ll have to start with a very light shade of purple even pink. Which means that I have to start with a very clean sheet of paper.
You get better results with drawing if you use the right kind of base. You want something soft that will yield to pressure. That way if you draw a sharp line your point won’t break. You can use some kind of mat. But that has the drawback that it will get dirty and cleaning a mat usually leaves little threats and some dust.
On route to the Eye lake
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I use a sheet of paper of 200 gram(/m2) that’s about three times the size of the paper I’m drawing on and a paint brush to clean off pieces of pencil grinding.
While drawing the edges of the paper it often happens that you’ll also draw on the base. Or it can happen that you pull color from the base to your drawing. With a drawing like this one that gets very dark on the edges, that doesn’t matter that much because I know it won’t be visible in the end product. But with a drawing that has very light parts like Purple music it will. So I had to stop with the drawing to first buy a new clean sheet of paper for my base.
Only after I had bought it, it dawned on me that I shouldn’t have wait. I’m in the very luxuries position where there are three pictures I want to draw plus the ongoing faces project. I’ve never had that.
Up till now if I had a picture that would take a few days to draw it would be a few days before my next entry in this blog. But from now on I can (hopefully) work on several projects at ones and post more frequent.
That also means that I can write the story that goes with every drawing before I start making the drawing. Up till now I first made the drawing and had to constant distraction of words tumbling through my mind. Now I’ll just write them all at ones and save them.
I’ve have a lot of eyes in my mind. Even the last few years when I got really tired from trying to be like other people and running into one problem after an other, never knowing that I was autistic. I kept seeing eyes in my mind.
Often before I went to sleep, when I closed my eyes there would be a pair of eyes in my mind looking at me.
I often wondered what they meant. If they meant anything at all.
One of the reasons I want to draw faces is because eyes are part of faces.
But now I’m discovering that I’ll probably won’t be able to draw faces (or at least not in the regular way) I have to think of different ways to explore the eyes in my mind.
One way is to enlarge the picture and look at what else it could be.
It could be a lake.
People in love often tell each other that they are drowning in each others eyes. I’ve only ones been in love over twenty years ago so I don’t really know about drowning in some ones eyes.
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nice drawing. its that pastel do you use?
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