Damaged Goods
I wanted to add an old drawing of mine to my "Model Illustrations" page. I created this in 1983 as part of a course in drawing. There are two versions of this piece: there's the original and then the much more refined piece done several years later at the expense of the original. Now, here's the problem...
This is the original. It was done on newsprint paper which clearly doesn't hold up well unless it's stored properly. The grid was penciled in as a means to recreate the entire drawing block by block on a clean sheet of newsprint paper. Why I couldn't simply draw the grid on a large sheet of visualizing paper while sparing the original, is a question I cannot answer today, 30 years later.
On a side note, this was drawn in a classroom filled with other students drawing this same model. I found it rather cool that she chose to fix her eyes toward me the couple of days that she posed for us. Did she think that I was the only one who knew what he was doing? Perhaps...
Also, notice how in this classroom filled with students, there's no evidence of any of them in this drawing. They were in my way.
This is the tragically remade drawing, again on newsprint. (If you must draw on newsprint, people, you must store it away properly and not inside a plastic bin underneath a ton of other drawings.)
Although the face is now permanently gone, I still like the way the drawing came out. And yes, evidence of the other students is still missing.
So, the problem now is how to include either drawing on my website as finished pieces when both are so horribly defaced. (I guess that is what the blog is for...)