So I've had this huge sheet of paper layin across my desk so that I can draw any time I'd like.
And the last few weeks I actually made some progress. Stopping by from time to time to continue coloring and maybe draw some new lines. I still have no idea where this will go, but interestingly enough the drawings starts to take the shape of a heart... Oh yeah, and that troublesome line, turned out to be some kind of leg.
I've also added som new colors to my collection, mostly leftovers from different acquaintances. During this experimentational process I decided to make swatches (small color-samples) from every one of them. This helped me a lot with choosing colors cause not every colored pencils is marked with the exact color it produces on the paper.
First I made swatches at random and maybe matching colors tonally. But I made the swatches one more time categorizing the after wich brand the where. This made it a lot easier for me to find the right pencil in the myriad of pencils.
I started on the upper left side. Since I'm right handed this will prevent me from dragging to much color around with my arm. I found it nice to match the colors used on the different shapes with eachother. So that the shapes can work together visually. But I left some areas blank. For these I can choose any color I like, so I leave them until more of the great shapes are done. This way I can pick a olor that's right for the whole composition in these areas instead of making a choice I might regret right away.
Suddenly I was presented with a problem. The area highlighted in the first picture below was surrounded with colors on every side, and I needed to make this area work in harmony with the rest of the designs. So I started with the most isolated area from the other colors and the tried to imagine how I could "fuse" everything together.
The solution was to make some new shapes with the colored pencils alone and mix some kind of 3D- and 2D-designs.
This is how it looks like right now. Until next time :-)
