Alligator to Zest

There they are...

After rummaging through my apartment, I had all sorts of things lined up along my dinner table.  Fire extinguisher, Milk jug, Wah pedal - one by one, I lay each down in front of me and sketch away.

One thing I start to find is that the more I sit here and draw these things out, the longer I am taking, which is not a bad thing.  These little drawings are turning out rather interesting.  Truthfully, I often find that my drawings can be really great (and I surprise myself sometimes), but only after I have taken too long on an image (at least, what I feel is too long).  One of the hurdles I need to get over is simply drawing faster, and trust that I know where to place the next line.

Of all the sketches I have done for this project, there are a few that I like, especially when they are situated next to each other.  For some reason or another, I am drawn (pun, much?) to the pack of gum.  I have done another drawing in a similar fashion, back in the Spring semester, where I was drawing an image with just a couple values of one color.  I am only using two colored pencils here, and I like the way the two mingle with each other.

hmm.

As I was saying earlier, too, I really like the way this image sits with the Headphones, iPod, and Joy sketches.  Each image is fairly simple, with not too much going on in the background, but the colors of each picture tend to complement the others in a way that I did not plan.

"Sound comes to the ear, the ear goes to the sound. When you blot out sound and sense, what do you understand? While listening with ears one never can understand. To understand intimately one should see sound."
-from Bells and Robes of The Gateless Gate.