spaceport

spaceport

When not working on my paltry little contracts, I've been drawing eleborate pictures. Most of them haven't turned out.

Don't know if that makes me an illustrator or not. It speaks to the value of planning, drawing thumbnails to get the values right, and many different versions. I don't do this. I often start in one corner, usually without the benefit of a pencil, and draw.

Here it was with the guy in the monkish robe in the front. Didn't know if was gong to be science fiction until the machine appeared in the background, with the robot. The other stuff fell into place. The blacks help it, because my drwaings can dissolve into a smog of labour-intensive crosshatching.

I'm sure if I'd be trained, I'd have some tricks that would save me a lot of useless drawing. Of I could copy things out of a book, or from other artists.

Some day I might put up the failed ones, so that people can see exactly what went wrong, and how to avoid it. Seriously, I think that's a good idea. I think that when you see a famous artist's "sketchbook," one of the reasons you don't get the whole book, is because the bad ones are taken out. One could learn a lot from them, I bet.

In the meantime, my new web-site is up. [link] Actually, only two parts so far are new, and I'm gradually revamping the rest.