Recent "Completed" Drawing/photography/photoshop hybrid: "Baby before the kill"
http://www.filefactory.com/file/24gd4kuqq38j/baby-before-the-kill.jpg
have some of my current work posted. "Baby, before the kill"---just a working title. not completely sure how story ends yet---either way, I am having to drag a female character of mine, who I like, into long term hell, which has changed the character and I am seeing a murderous, catlike glee at the evil she may be partaking of.
take it one at a time I guess. high res files. i call them subconscious drawings----found out the surrealists had a process may be similar called automatic drawing.
all starts out as approx 4x6 frame completely filled with overlapping lines, shapes, etc, lines of different sizes. I try not to look anymore when filling the frame to try to get different results. After filling the frame--this is what I refer to as a "Nonsense" or "Gibberish" drawing,
This is when you have to shut down your brain and let your subconscious guide the drawing---really more like identifying stuff in the clouds. the drawings almost draw themselves at this point. because there is no space in the frame, you have to knock stuff out to create space. I used 50-70percent markers so I can start getting some idea of close middle far, based on value. I constantly rotate frame as I work, because there are usually about 50-100 good drawings waiting to be revealed. If I see a bunch of potential ideas, I stop, scan at 600 dpi, and print full page, half page, and quarter page prints. working on copies means you will not mess up original, also in making mistakes, you find new answers.
follow up steps for those interested with next post
