Singing in Charcoal Cloud with Ink
I am more in love with this one than with any one in a long time. It's the cloudy yet definite feel that these two media combined create - ghostly but solid. This is an almost certain option for a final piece, but much much bigger with another face added in one of the corners... I am still experimenting, though I should be finished by now. I'm obsessed with the effect that charcoal has when over-drawn by something more permanent. Charcoal is so shifting, so suggestive and so impermanent. You can rub it off again and again leaving only a thin grey layer, and solidifying those layers in one definite drawing makes a moment-in-time feel. That's what I want. It is so late at night. Ha ha ha.
Do not bother commenting on the teeth - I know they are too perfect, white and large. Actually, please do comment. It will drill it further into my conciousness and I will be less likely to do it again. It is so late, but I am waiting for the fire to die down before I go to bed. That is why I am lingering here.
Actually, his teeth are not so bad - who's to say how far he's pulling his lips back? because he does have rather large teeth. Excuse though the blotches - I was not concentrating, damn me, and tried to draw with the pen too loaded with ink. That's the scary thing about pen and ink.
