If you happened to be passing by my studio yesterday afternoon you might have heard some huffing and puffing, the furious sound of a rubber on paper and the brushing away of rubbings, and definitely a bit of swearing.
The aliens, sorry ANGELS, want to come out! They do! They are just having an identity crisis.
(Happens to the best of us.)
And they don’t want to look like anyone else’s angels (or aliens for that matter), but sometimes you need a springboard in the form of Other People’s Ways Of Doing Things.
There are some features I know are ‘me’. They come up a lot, like the eyebrow that turns into the side of the nose in a big arching sweep, and the eyebrow that also comes off the edge of the face. The nose is also quite simple. The mouth always wants to be smiling, but serenely, not like a prissy little pursed up mouth. And the eyes….the eyes are my nemesis right now!
Too round, too slitty, too close together, too far apart, too drugged looking, too whatever. Probably because they are where the expression lies. Even when I think carefully about every line I make they still aren’t right.
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!
I will not be beaten by aliens.
Ha ha! I love this post! I completely understand. Eyes are the window to the soul of course, so I suppose they ought to be a bit hard to locate. And I bet you have days where you set out to draw something and think it's going to be hard, but there it is, perfect, the first sketch you draw?! I did that the other day with some vertiginously high-heeled shoes I'm stitching! x x x
I think its interesting when we struggle with our craft or art whatever medium, my struggle is faces in needle felting. But I think keep pushing the envelope we'll get there eventually.
It must be the week for it, i've had struggles this week too, must be to do with the changing seasons or something 🙂
Hope you struggle ends soon and it all falls into place for you.
Hugs
Micki x
haha! But they each have their own character which will develop as the pictures develop and their beauty will shine through. Who knows what angels look like anyway – they a different for each of us……go with the flow..
I love that you share your frustrations with us…
Not that I'd wish struggles on anyone but sometimes it's good to know we're not alone! The super moon has had a powerful effect on most of us. Lesley you are right, sometimes you need to let go to find the answers…
So, this is an interesting post to me…not because it deals with the struggle to get the art right. It addresses an intuition that has been floating through my mind for awhile now….Are some of what we call aliens, actually in fact, angels?…or are some alien races angelic. Maybe this is what was coming through on this day, lol!
Kathryn