Here I am, working diligently on my onion skin journal once more, that dastardly see-through journal. I've gotten into really filling the page - I think a lot of darkness, in beautiful blocks of pencil, really compliments the transparency of each one. The pencil marks themselves have this wonderful softness, but the sections of completely filled-in pencil background give a nice murky feel to the drawing. The contrast is really nice without being as intrusive to the other pages as it might be in another medium.
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| What is this? |
What I like a lot, also, is sort of letting the journal contain a certain sort of world. There's something of a continuum here. The weird creatures are lurking. For some reason, it makes me think of all the forest-dwelling things in Over the Garden Wall. I think they would be at home in here.
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| Oh, that's what it is. |
I've always thought that I needed to do backgrounds more, but I've never really committed to that. Instead, I love carving out a dark void that sits behind a simple foreground - a small mound for a character to sit on, or a cluster of large daisies. There's something nicely suggestive there, a glimpse into a natural world. The vast darkness gives the image depth without really containing anything, and the foreground provides a sliver of place.
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| Beautiful woman. |
There's also something approaching sinisterness about the pairing up of two mysterious creatures. I suppose twosomes are, in some way, a running visual theme across my drawings, but something about these duos in particular makes me think: wow... what are they up to?
No doubt, they are up to no good.
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