More familiar turf, sketched from an old photo, using
ball point pen.
I finished this at 11:00 PM,
November 12, 2013. It seemed too numerologically pertinent not to post.
I drew it with a regular old
Ticonderoga soft lead pencil, bought in bulk a couple years back. My favorite
pencil.
I like
this drawing a lot. It’s a balm, a relief, an antidote to my paying gig,
drawing all day long in someone else’s style. I don’t know what my style is.
I’m doing this daily blog to help me discover it.
Here, I take a completely different tack from yesterday’s blog drawing
, trying to
see how simple and abstract I can get while keeping the subject matter
readable. I drew with ball point pen. It would have worked well in cut paper.
This drawing re-works familiar turf… I worked from
memory, with minimal underdrawing, using a drybrush technique, Windsor Newton
Sable dipped in India ink. At, that’s what it looks like.
This is the final double page spread in this series.
Herein we fully see the supplicating torn-paper face glimpsed obliquely in
yesterday’s blog posting. We also see, more clearly, the torn paper crotch
profile from yesterday’s blog and the man’s hips from the blog before that.
There’s something vaguely profound about it.
For today’s blog, I once
again am showing both pages of the folio. On the left page one can see the torn
paper edge of the hips of the man from yesterday’s drawing. One can also see
clearly how the moisture from the glue warps and distorts the thin paper of the
date book.
On the
right we see two dates, and two images combined as one. For the image dated
10-28-12 we have the torn paper silhouette of a profile crotch shot,
overlapping the page underneath, which has a torn paper profile of a open
mouthed man wearing an expression of rapt supplication.
Just for laughs, I’m showing
both sides of the folio spread for today’s Daily Dick. I’m working with cut
paper again, a give-away flier advert from my local art supply shop, painted
into with watercolor and gouache. On the reverse side of the folio page, one
can just make out the cut-out shape of the previous page’s dick, glimpsed in
yesterday’s blog. It was a fortuitous accident that the yellow button on the
man’s shorts appeared as a yellow sun on the dick head of the previous page’s
image. It’s cool when shit like that works out.
As an
afterthought, I carefully tore off the paper to the right side of the man’s
hips and legs. So, not only do you get cut paper, you get torn paper.
So, I did this image as cut paper, not only glued onto
the calendar page, but cutting through it to the calendar page beneath, which
has a cut paper image on IT. In other words, you’re witnessing a cut paper
image of a cut paper image.
This drawing is similar to yesterday’s in theme and
subject. I probably should have done it as cut-paper, only I liked the
crude-yet-subtle application of the colored pencil.
Colored Pencil is the tool of choice for today’s
tasteful sketch.
