These drawings were made in Procreate on iPad with the intention of producing physical drawings from them in ink on paper. However, when I began experimental drawings yesterday I found it didn't work for me at all. I'm not entirely sure why; something to do with the materials and the pens I was using just didn't gel and the drawings were clumsy in a bad way. I tried a variety of papers, even working over a mono-print texture, but it didn't solve the problem. The results of each experiment were only marginally different, lacked character, and yielded nothing satisfactory. It's possible the digital work doesn't translate well into drawing, or perhaps it doesn't suit my style, being too representational; but I had to face the fact that the digital versions were superior, and better left in that domain for now. The main problem lay in the quality of my mark-making. I used Procreate's 'ink bleed' brush on a minimal line size for the digital versions shown here. It has a slightly soft, broken line which provided a light intricacy. This was missing altogether in the physical drawings. It is possible that if I worked them on a larger scale the marks would be relatively smaller and more delicate. Around A2 size (594mm on the long dimension) would probably be better, giving them space to breathe, whereas I was trying them at approximately A5 (210mm on the long side) and the results were too crowded. Also, my current mapping pen is new, full of ink, and producing a dark line. I generally prefer the lighter, finer lines of part-used ones for intricate drawing. I was working with the Christmas exhibition 'On a Small Scale' at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh in mind, but I can see from my experiments that these won't do for that particular show - fortunately, however, I have plenty of other ideas on the go which I shall get on with, and perhaps return to these lovely moths and plants at a later date.
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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