fear of the almost-blank page
Aug. 10th, 2006 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI 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...
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...
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Date: 2006-08-11 01:23 am (UTC)After writing that I ended up sitting down with my rough and the board and just redrew it. Probably in more detail that I actually need, what with using opaque paint, but hey!