For the last few weeks or maybe months, it seems hard to tell, I have been working on the perspective drawings for the second half of island of terror. Once I finished I moved back to page 13 and started to fill in the pencilled art work only to find myself more then a bit rusty. The last few days have been a frustrating slog to try and get my form back. Much like an athlete or a horse artists have form and mine at the moment is anything but good. Bad form tends to manifest itself by drawing me into endless adjustments on a frame taking hours and hours, sometimes even days, until the paper has been worn though by the constant rubbing out and my head throbs like a pulsing star.
My way of dealing with this is once the frustration brakes and normal service is resumed I destroy all substandard art work by either gluing over the offending frames or burning the whole page so it can no longer taunt me with it’s amateurish glair. This time however I have decided to leave the substandard frames and present them here for comparison with the finished version I will no doubt be so proud of. Hopefully it will be an interesting insight into how I work and a bit more honest then only presenting the odd good piece I do.
