Doodlejedi - Drawings by Chris Hack

I don't Know, I'm Making It Up As I Go...

I don't think I've ever found my style. A way of drawing. An end result that I'm completely comfortable with. Where I look at the finished piece and go, yeah I want more drawings like that. I get close now and then. But then I see a different way of doing things and I try that instead.

I'm saying this because this week was one of those weeks. I started the week drawing with 0.3 B technical pencil. Then the drawing changed as I tried my HB 0.3 technical pencil And suddenly I was so much happier with the line and the tone after finding B  a bit soft. Then mid week I discovered an amazing artist. Darren Beadman. He draws with 7B pencils. And I love the line and tone he gets. So I get some of those and continue on that same drawing with a 7B Staedtler graphite pencil. And it looks awesome. Less washed out and grey. More bold. I love it. And I'm loving the line of a normal pencil again. So now I'm drawing with a HB and a 7B Staedtler. And I'm considering moving my art from white illustration board to greytone paper so I can play with the whites as well!

And this is why I never settle. I'm always looking for that right way. That eureka moment when it all just clicks. Until then as Indiana Jones once said, I'm making it up as I go!

Fortune And Glory Kid...

It's the start of another new week. And time for another new drawing. I'm having so much fun working in my Moleskine at the moment. It's mainly for an hour in the morning every day before I leave for my day job! And I'm really planning to stick with it this time. I have a long history of starting a sketchbook and then giving it up after a few pieces. But not this time. I will finally have a nice shiny Moleskine filled with my drawings! So here's number 2. Indiana Jones from Temple of Doom. Drawn with a HB technical pencil. And I'm already hard at work on my next drawing...