A botched experiment
This was supposed to be the fourth part of my five part series about drawing a dark color around a lighter one. But the fourth experiment was something of a failure.
I was curious whether it was possible to draw on top of the hair spray I use to fixate my drawings. And if so what would happen if I would draw stars on fixated blue.
It turns out that it is possible to draw on top of a fixate drawing. But yellow stars on top of blue fixate or otherwise are invisible. To bad.
Yellow on black
But it got me thinking about something else. I wanted to draw black rectangles and color them yellow.
There are two problems with that idea. Firstly black stains very easily. So if I were to start with the rectangles and then come back to color them the whole drawing would be ruined by a lot of stains.
Secondly black isn’t really black. When you mix it with yellow you get a green like color. So if I would start with yellow oblongs and then draw black around them, the lines would turn green.
How nice that it is possible to draw on top of fixate.
Towers
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License to fail
Don’t know if you noticed it but this drawing is riddled with mistakes. Lines are crooked and not in line with each other.
I’ve always been afraid of making mistakes. Afraid to the point where I rather do nothing then make even the smallest of mistakes.
There must be something in my youth that explains this fear. Maybe a teacher or one of my parents who gave heavy handed punishments if I made a small mistake.
The problem is that I can’t remember anything of that nature.
The last few months I’ve been wondering whether it is possible that this has something to do with autism and I think it has.
People with autism tend to get fixated on little details and forget the big picture.
For instance last week I commented on the weblogtoolscollection site on a post about keyboard shortcuts. I told them that I had found that ctrl-<number> a highlighted piece of text will give you a header (in WordPress).
A few hours later I realized that I had made a mistake. It shouldn’t be ctrl-<number> but cntrl-<number>. I had forgotten an “n”.
This time I was able to put it in perspective. The abbreviation for “control” is both written with an “n” and without an “n”. So it isn’t really a mistake and it doesn’t bother me all the much. But until a few weeks ago something like this could bother me for weeks, even month.
Now I know. But up till last September I never knew I had autism. I never knew I tended to fixate on the little details and forget the big picture. I didn’t know I had to put situations in perspective and force myself to look at the big picture.
Better drawing
I’m learning that mistakes in a drawing aren’t necessary mistakes.
In my drawing Sideways I made several mistakes. If you look closely there is one yellow circle that’s a little red. Couldn’t cover that one up.
There are also several circles that are in the wrong place. I had to draw extra circles in places I didn’t plan to cover these mistakes up and it actually made the drawing a lot more interesting then would have been the case without the mistake.
For this drawing I planned to make mistakes. So instead of using a ruler to get all line straight and in line I drew them by hand. That way the lines aren’t perfect but they are a life.
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