Beautiful oops  

What guided this artwork in the beginning was the random drops of ink I had to work with to create a piece of art. I came up with the idea of a young girl weaving together different space objects onto a string, with the ink dots being black holes, and the idea evolved from there. First, the girl is sitting on a green Earth, but it's also a ball of yarn, conveyed through the lines that can also be seen as longitude and latitude as well as the giant needle sticking out of it. The girl is wearing what looks like a torn up dress, but it is also the yarn Earth's ocean. Her hair is white representing the polar ice cap. The stars, planets, and black holes she strings together with string from her earth sized yarn ball look like beads in a way. In the background the stars and moon are stitched to the sky. Even the face of the moon is stitched together with elements reminiscent of a doll face. With this piece I was looking to make a universe made by a little girl with craft supplies, something grand made from something small and nostalgic. 

I first sketched out the concepts for this piece in my sketchbook with a soft pencil, then I sketched out my idea on the final paper with the original ink spots. I used a thin blue artist pen to carefully draw in the lineart of this piece, starting with the girl and earth, then sketching and inking in other elements of the piece. After that I picked out some of the alcohol markers I had as well as a light blue colored pen, this was the color palette I worked with as I didn't want the piece to get too bizzy, especially not the background. After coloring in all the elements of the piece came the background, ideally I wanted to color it in with a mat gray or mute light purple, but I did not have either of those colors at home. I opted to shade in the background with black colored pencil to represent the void of space without being as overwhelming, or losing any of the elements, in a pitch black.

I started planning out this piece when I chose a piece of paper with a singular ink streak on it. I promptly went to my sketchbook to draw out a few thumbnail sketches with pencils to figure out an idea. I thought about making the splotch into a koi fish and making the whole piece a koi pond. Or to make it the shot out of the gun of a cowboy. I didn't like any of the ideas I came up with for that particular ink splotch, it was too rigid a shape. So, I went back and got a different piece of paper with different ink drops on them. Immediately I saw a girl sitting on a hill, creating and looking up at glowing spheres around her. This idea slowly shifted into what was the final piece. The hill became the Earth/ball of yarn. The creation of stars became stringing them onto a piece of yarn. The rest just flowed suit as I went.