fear of the almost-blank page

[egypturnash]

I never thought I'd find myself in this place.

I have a piece of board that I taped off the edges of and painted a halfway-interesting gradation on. I have a sketch that I did of what I want to put on this board. I did some quick tests with various pencils I have lying around, to see what will work with throwing gouache on top of it - some of the pencils I was thinking of using turned out to be too waxy.

And this piece of board, and the sketch, are just sitting there. I whipped the sketch out in a minute or two. It should be a moment's work to get a loose version of it blocked in on the board, enough to start painting over it. But I keep on cringing away from doing this.

Because I'm afraid of fucking it up.

Three bucks worth of board (I think), a bit of paint, a few minutes of painting, and I'm afraid of fucking it up.

I've been spending too much time with 'undo' available. I feel like an idiot.

I also need to figure out a cheap and not-annoying way to get a rough from a little sketch onto board. In the long run, I suspect I want an opaque projector...

Comments

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I suggest rather than starting on your comic and good paper, get some cheap paper and just doodle in gouache on it. Fuck around, mess shit up, see what you can do.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Hell, this is why I'm painting on illustration board. A few bucks per piece is nothing compared to canvas. After pondering why I was balking by writing this, I sat down and just eyeballed my rough onto there in pencil... I think I might do some tiny color roughs on the computer to decide on hues.