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

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I've got my eyes on... um... pricier printers. Small posters and all that.

I don't really trust the all-in-ones, plus they tend to be sheet-feed scanners rather than flatbed. Not very usable when most of your scanning comes out of a sketchbook you don't feel like ripping up!

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I figured you probably wanted something higher-end, but I thought it was worth a mention. Although I imagine you aren't as poor as I am. (:

Please do tell me how it works out when you do get one, in case I can afford a pricier printer one day.