34/100 - Rolling along
There is a trail of detritus left behind almost any creative undertaking and it's really hard to judge what's interesting in there. I personally love to see artist's sketchbooks but I'm not so forthcoming with mine. I throw everything in there like it was a trash bin so sometimes showing it feels a bit indecorous, but really that feeling of overexposing yourself runs through every moment of showing any of your work, and welp, writing about it. Better it is to roll along, so in that spirit here are a couple of pages of sketches that became the finished drawings I've been posting:
Sometimes I start with an idea on the sketchbook and then pencil it directly on the wood, but more often I reach a final outline on the page, then I transfer it to the wood using a piece of tracing paper. This means I get to trace some shapes a couple of times before the final inking. This also means that I end up with a lot of little pieces of scribbled-on tracing paper because I use a colored pencil to rub the pencil outlines on to the wood, like these:
I'm not much of a collector so I used to throw these things away until a friend convinced me I should keep them. She showed me the published sketchbook of an illustrator we both like, and he did the same thing with tracing paper, and it was actually kind of neat to see them. So now, despite my reluctance to store unnecessary things I put these in a folder, or in the back pocket of the sketchbook where they wait for future eyes. I do it not because I think every scribble is interesting -I lack such confidence- but because I've accepted I'm not the greatest judge of it. I'm a reluctant hoarder.
Rolling along is 2.5" by 4". Available here(sold).