Space

I think what I was trying to do with this piece of artwork  is work on drawing a detailed picture with pieces of it missing. I realized that it is hard to not draw the whole thing, because I had to estimate where some lines went under the leaves to make them proportional where you could see them.  For the hands it was really hard not to add the lines in between fingers and to shade it in. I had to erase lines in all three of them, I tried to draw as much of it without doing that as I could, but that didn't always happen. I also didn't love the end result, it looks weird because you can't see the inside lines. With the zentangle value strip I tried to make it as accurate as possible, but after I finished I found myself wishing that I could switch some sections around. 

For the negative space leaves I began with graphite pencil to sketch out the leaves, I sketched the general outline, then when I went back in with a gel pen, I added specific details such as the teeth and rips.  After I outlined the leaves in pen I started to draw in the city with graphite. I Drew small parts of it with pencil then would go over it in pen.  After a while I got bored of doing that, so I just did it in pen.  For the zentangle I used graphite to sketch the outline of the dragon, but used only pen on the inside, which is rare, because I always get really scared about messing up, so not doing it with something I can erase first scares me. 

When I first started my negative space leaf drawing I was simply just copying down the leaves, I always have a hard time with proportion though, so that was really hard for me. I was in study hall, and I must have erased it like 17 times, until I was remotely happy with it, and at that point remotely was good enough. I had no clue what to draw for the background, I had been thinking a city all along but I figured it would be really hard so I pushed that idea away, but as I thought longer about it, it seemed like the only option that I actually wanted to do. Also, usually the harder it looks to draw, the better it will look after.