Weekly Draw February
Hi!
Well it is supposed to be ‘Daily Draw February’ and
so far I’m managing that, it’s just not ‘daily upload February’ so it’s going
to be ‘Weekly Draw February’ with 5 days of drawing and two of tidy up and
publish per week J.
Day 1 – Mirror Mirror
After camping for a week in a remote location with limited
facilities you really begin to appreciate what life is all about and how simple
it can be, but it wasn’t till we returned to ‘civilisation’ that I realised
just how you can be affected by something as simple as a mirror.
You’ll stop, look at yourself, check yourself over for what
– imperfections? Judge yourself on the way you look? Or just plain have a smile
at how good looking you are? Wow, are we really that critical/vain?
Not having a mirror for a week actually showed me that yes
personal appearance is important for self esteem but so is being happy with who
you are and the life you have without have to have an external source of
reference, and so I created these rhymes about the ‘Mirror, Mirror on the
wall’.
Day 2 – Roses are Red
I can’t believe I’d even forgotten the bit past ‘Violets are
blue so I had to look it up. How bad is that! But in doing so I found some
interesting pointers to the origins of the apparently now commercialised
‘Valentines’ style rhyme from something that I felt had a bit more meaning. So
after a slightly rambling start I managed to recraft it into more of it’s
original style, which was quite fun.
Day 3 – Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk
Following on – as one’s mind is want to do – the nursery
rhyme track, I decided to crossover Jack and Jill with ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
and rather enjoyed trying to fit the two together with the main thrust being
the beanstalk coming out of the well. J
Day 4 – Foxy
A cross between J Scott Campbell
and Erika Pearce. I’ve
wanted to try this since I saw Ericka’s awesome pieces with animals and people.
The face turned out J Scott Campbell style someone and I image her being a
redhead of course.
Day 5 – In the Mind
Sometimes the easiest way to find something to draw is un-focus
yourself and see what the pencil will do, it usually ends up a bit weird as evidenced
here but it’s still fun.
Enjoy!
Rob
