[de]sein

after a day of sitting in my apartment finalizing designs (and my day is no where near done), i thought that i would cheer myself up and post a drawing that is truly on my wall. when i first moved into my apartment i had recently seen several audrey hepburn films and i decided that she would be my first apartment muse. the image is the iconic one printed by fred astaire’s character in ‘funny face’. it’s done in graphite and it makes me smile every time i see it. it’s a good reminder that not everything that i attempt comes out like shit.

the second installment of on the wall. this one looks like rain maybe. just playing with repetition of form with variable scale.

in the image, i have also included my uber fancy drawing setup. i am not actually drawing on the wall. i have two sheets of bristol drawing paper pinned to the wall and a roll of trash (what we called it in architecture, basically tracing paper) hung above it. this way i can just rip a drawing off and roll down some more. this is seriously the only way i have found to be okay with drawing just for the sake of drawing. i know that the trash is like $5 for a roll of 2000 feet or something like that. an actual sheet of nice virgin paper intimidates the hell out of me. that’s why i can’t paint. the canvases are just to pretty to ruin.

a strip of wall in my apartment is dedicated to drawing. from time to time i make use of this strip of wall. sometimes i’ll show you what is on it.

this was a ’stream of consciousness’ drawing. of which most of mine are right now. i’m curious to see exactly what comes out when i put my pen to the page. eyes crop up a lot in my drawings, i think mainly because i’m fairly good at drawing them. there also appears to be a slightly anthromorhpic curving matchstick and a person crouching with a flower coming out of their butt. who knew?