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

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

The cheapass Jr. Tracer thingy at most craft stores is a functional opaque projector, in friendly blue plastic, no less!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I'll keep an eye out for those suckers. I feel like that's an important missing step in my painting "process" right now!