Drawing Fahrenheit Part 2

I’m taking these blog posts slow. Looking through old files and papers.

What I found this week was some more details about page 5. As I said I probably did five versions of this, and many, pages.

Here we see the page put together as a whole and then again in color with some changes.

And the final pages are different still.

Yes, I did do some thumbnails in color as I was going to color the final book.

I found that laying down color first created new ideas and compositions. Some that worked and some that did not.

The fact that I found these after posting about page five last week brings up my greatest enemy, and the enemy of many an artist (or just normal people. Ha!). Organization!

I pulled out these old bits of paper from 12 years ago and have not yet organized them!

When I am working and creating, things are often a mess. Sometimes I look for a colored pencil and all I find is a red marker so I say, “Okay, I have to do this now…what will a red marker look like?” Sometimes great! Sometimes a disaster.

If you let the mess get too out of hand, you just have to stop and clean up your studio before moving on. Each time I clean I think, “There! It’s all organized! But in a week or two…it’s a disorganized mess yet again.

 If I (or you) have to put a book together of any length, organization is key. Folders, reference, page numbers on your thumbnails and a date book with a schedule. All things I learned the hard way.

Next week? I don’t know what I will write about! This blog is not well organized yet.

But I’m working on it!

Tim