Well it's been a hell of a two weeks since I had my chemo treatment. It was a bit hard. Now I have to go again just in another week. I just am beginning to feel better a bit and not even all the way yet and I only have yet another week to feel better yet. I thought I would only feel really bad for one week. Not all this time. Drawing is helping me not to feel too bad for myself. I can't believe I only have one week til I have to go back again and start this all over again. Ack! And this has only been one treatment so far. I guess I'm a big baby. This is going to be a longer haul than I thought it to be. Big sigh.
Well I have put some of my photos in an order I think to show how the lily drawing as progressed. I think it is interesting to see it. I want to see it and see if indeed it is interesting. So here it will be. Something from beginning to now...which is not done. There are still many hours to be done it to be done. The background is not even as black as it will be or at least in some places. I'm not sure about the background completely yet. The drawing will really begin to progress now. Texture and light and shade with many gradations. This will be the true tell of the drawing now. It is hard to show texture and pattern in black and white while not only giving away light to dark. I love black and white in photography too. It's the true measure of a photographer in my mind. It's really hard to get true black and true white while not blowing out the whites and then getting all the grays in middle. A good black and white photograph is probably one of the hardest things to do. I'm a better critic than a photographer. These photos of my art are not by any means to be looked at by those measures please. They are just simple records of a process and they are not done with any special light nor terrific care. I use a Nikon D90 that I love dearly. A gift from my older sister, Jackie for a Christmas present a couple years ago. I'm still learning how to use it properly.
There are many more stages of course and I thought about adding them but maybe I'll do that in another post. But if you look closely you might see some things like look like slight changes. They are slight changes but can make a difference in the composition in such a small "composition". Yes this still very much to do with composition besides two snails and a lily sitting on a page. I have to be very careful that the strong vertical thrust that goes up and off at a strong angle to the right is not TOO strong and over takes the complete drawing. It could be so strong that your eyes go right off the page even though there are two very strong snails there to draw your eyes in. There is the angle of the stem and the stamen and even the lily itself with it's folds. I have to make sure that it is anatomically correct too, for I could spent a hundred hours on the thing and a person could walk up and in two seconds simply say, "it's not right" and discount it with a shake of the head as if it's such a shame. And it would be. And so I had to make some correction to the stamen alignment with the stem this morning. It wasn't lining up as it should. You might see it and catch it in the earlier stages. For one thing it simply wasn't thick enough for such a large flower such as this to hold it up even in this stage of decay and it wasn't thick enough of the stamen nor aligned for it. I corrected that. I also did not like the negative space and I'm still not so sure of it. But, I gave just a bit more angle to the right side of the lily bottom petal to give more agnle back to the center of the drawing, bringing the eye back in again. It's very subtle and might need even more. The whole right side is not of my liking yet. I think I'll have to widen the black and cut off some of the white on the left. ug. But I might need to do that. I also added to the bottom right petal to bring the eye back up too. It's subtle but needed. There will be many soft black edges with some sharp edges. That will be much of what this drawing is about.
I have spent several mins trying to put these two side by side so that there could be a comparison but this program will simply not allow such a thing. This new year they changed some of the programing and have made it much harder to add photos. Thanks. Someone has to keep a job so they have to keep changing things I suppose. Why not make it easier then?? There are only three choices now for the size and they are not compatible to the given format. The one I was actually given by them...where is the logic in that. Oh well. So here is what I am given that I can do. so be it. I'm not a programmer so I can't change it. I suppose I will learn more about doing these things but I haven't the time for it now. Sorry. The changes that you might see here are so small they don't look like much but think of it much larger, it's 18 by 24 or something like that.
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