From the artist Marisol Escobar, I drew with one color on top of another. I quickly drew the human figure, and after drawing it, I thought that it would work better with an animal silhouette. The cat also doesn’t have human hands on it, but has flora instead.
A few years back, a friend of mine got a summer job at Yellowstone National Park, so a group of us decided to make a road trip of it and drive him to Wyoming. We’re all getting older and moving away, so this was one of the last times that we would all be together, especially for an extended length of time. Yellowstone is a beautiful park, but I didn’t enjoy the trip so much because of the scenery but because of the people I was with, and the celebration of how far we’d come. Our last night, on the way back, we stayed in the house of some relative of a guy on the trip in Middle-of-Nowhere, North Dakota. This collage is that night, when we stayed up late into the night playing pinball and drinking soda.
Prompt 9 asks for a doodles, so I filled a sketchbook page.
As the documentary we watched suggested, this doodle does reveal my unconscious mind. I tend to be pretty interested in things – planes, rockets, cars – but I also drew a few more natural forms as well. Also, I experimented a little with color
Above is my planes in space drawing. I’m quite happy with how this turned out; it was exactly as I intended. This was the first project in which I used color. I think this was a very good introduction to color because my aim wasn’t photo realism. I could color my planes without worrying about if it matched reality, giving me some leeway in that department.
Below is a picture of the under drawing and a picture of the initial concept sketch.
