More Ink on Paper

I don’t know where this is head­ing. I’m run­ning right up against the lim­its of my ren­der­ing vocab­u­lary here and I feel like I’m fum­bling around in the dark. I’m find­ing myself wish­ing I was work­ing larg­er so that I’d have more room. At this scale I don’t have much room to use tex­ture with­out mud­dy­ing it up and mak­ing it too dark. That leads me to rely on out­line, and that way there be monsters.

I’m not sure how this piece is going to turn out, but some­times the best thing is just to sol­dier on and find out how it will turn out. It’s not hap­pen­ing the way I want it to, so the job now turns into try­ing not to make it worse. Once I’ve got ink all over the page, then I can recon­sid­er the choic­es I’ve made, but it’s always eas­i­er to add marks lat­er than it is to remove them.