I mistakenly blogged all these exercises on a old Tumblr blog I have called Nooseoflight which is why they appear, well they have been’ reblogged….(just in case this little detail bothered you ;-)
Here’s the first illustration I did of the image I’ve chosen to work with… I’ll try a pen, ink and gouache or watercolour image, and maybe some collage and see where it takes me. This one I purposely left the foreground white, to add text and was conscious to leave white areas at the top to balance it too. I wanted to keep the scratchy diagonal lines to suggest rain and wet. I realise now that it would be great to have the tree complete so that its not cropped at the top and the left side, this is something I must learn to do, not be constrained by the paper edges which I now realise I am very used to and comfortable being constrained by.
(Source: nooseoflight)
