Going backward to go forward

Back to this, one of the impulsive doodles that started me on the LIFE, STILL journey in 2006.

That led to this a  year or so later.  Perhaps the balloons should say, "HI MOM MY EYES ARE CLOSED, BUT I CAN SEE THAT  YOUR ARM IS FROZEN AT A WEIRD ANGLE, AND YET IT'S IS TOUCHING MY STOMACH.", "HI, CHRISTINE, I HAVE TO TOUCH YOUR STOMACH, BECAUSE, AS YOU CAN SEE, I HAVE NO EYES.  ALSO NO RIGHT ARM."

Some months after that, a redraw to prepare for an ink drawing.  "HI, MOM, HAVE YOU BEEN LIFTING WEIGHTS?  YOUR SHOULDERS SEEM LARGE, AND YOUR HEAD HAS GOTTEN SMALLER."  "HI CHRISTINE, ARE YOU STANDING ON A STOOL?"

"Hi MOM, YOU REMIND ME OF BABAR WITH A SHRUNKEN HEAD ON HIS NOGGIN""HI CHRISITINE, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO BE A SUBURBANITE."

Today. 

why is it so much fun to draw faces?

Reluctant blogger

I know I should be posting.   I'm working, but this is what I want to be doing:

©chris mesarch2008

 

clearest to me so far

Of all the 30 or so inked drawings I've done for Life, Still this one is my favorite.  It has qualities from the pencil versions and the ink versions.  It isn't rigid, it leaves possibilities to go in different directions and still stay true to style.

©Chris Mesarch 2008


It reminds me of the drawings I did in high school.

 

What doodles become

This doodle

became this drawing

Which became this trial inked drawing.

I'm still torn between pen and pencil for a final medium.   We Are Alone by Miriam Katin  is a graphic novel which uses pencil for it's final drawings.  They are wonderful.

  

How It Started, "Life, Still"

It started with a casual doodle, four years ago, one day in my studio.

 

Now it starts like this:

page 1 ©chris mesarch 2008

Third Redraw

Not only did the second redraw look like a farm, it was incorrect.  Attempting to draw a clearer version of my neighborhood of 20+ years, I added a street.  Blame it on bronchitis.

This
             





 Should have been this

which is a redraw of this

and in the book is
supposed to be a
profound contrast to
This   
This book has about 700 drawings.