When I began this sketch, I had not finish neither #4 nor #5 yet. Things were starting to pile up. Which is, if you think about it, quite anxiogenic for somwthing that I began to relax on one week break from work I had. Still. It was the first blank page terror: no idea what to draw whatsoever. I eventually made this pretty think down bellow. ..
#Inktober 2022, Day 6: Bouquet (and kinda also for day 18 - Scrape, but I know it is a stretch... )
As I told: no idea. And when I have no idea I usually use Irony. So... bouquets are romantic... Irony means no romance... But how?
What about a bouquet thrown away at the street, rotting in the gutter?
So I made a quick search online and found a few images... And I was imediatly overwhelmed with so many images. There are a lot, I mean, A LOT, of bouquet images online. But they are all vry pretty. Al bouquets are so well treated ! Still I managed to get a few ones that were in the street (although looked gently put there) and a few ones with very good feature for a black and white drawing (like high contrast and a clean background). A put just a few bellow.
Bt there was the second part: I had to make it match two prompts to follow my Resolution #3. So I browsed the prompt list again for something like an action. I toyed with the idea of Forget (Maybe a forgotten bouquet?) . Still blank page. Then I though about scrape (Somebody got scraped on a bouquet? Better yet, the bouquet scraped something? But how?). Most of the ideas meant a lot of exta stuff to drawn that would take away attention from the bouquet. Anyway, eventually I got to the idea of a vengeful bouquet... A bouquet that you threw away but came after you crawling and scraping everithing on its way... Ok. The problem was (as you can see bellow) it was still a lot of things to draw besides the bouquet.
So it was already october 5 at night and me and my wife had a dinner date with my friend Trindade and his wife. He is the guy from trinda.art, the one that actually was doing Inktober and got the idea to me, as I told you before. They are good friends
So I discussed my difficulties with him over dinner and he sugested me to keep it simple. Off course, as in any good advice, I initially did not take it seriously. I instead started thinking about the next one on the prompt list.
Dinner went on well and after they left I realized it was already almost friday, and that friday would be very busy with lots of work to finish. I would probably have no time to look at this again before the weekend.
That is how I decided to take the advice: I focused the image on the crawling bouquet, forgot most of the background stuff and finished the best I could before bed. That way, I, thought, would give me some extra time until the weekend. Or that was what I thought... Anyway, that was when I learned to close my eyes take a deep breath and just post it...
Now, the challenge was far from over, but maybe I could now, in the weekend hurry a few of the ones in the days 1-3? (the OCD again, remember) Maybe I could finish be up to date this weekend!