I’m definitively a completist. I like it as it is. And it’s fun to see unfinished work, outside of a class environment, you almost only see finished artwork, and I find some of the intermediate steps are often very good looking in themselves.
For example, in my own pen and ink work, some of the pencil sketches are better, because less defined, than the final pen lines. But they all disappear with the eraser.
With pencil, you can see the line I was trying to make; with pen and ink, (especially line art, less in crosshatching), you just see the single crisp final line. And many times, unfortunately, that final line is just 1/2mm off from where I wanted it to be.
I’m intrigued by the finish, looks just like very grainy watercolor paper, but it can’t be.
Michel, I hope you do a similar post, literally illustrating what you discuss above.
Indeed, the places to find “unfinished” works are art classes and Internet art support groups. In 2007 I learned the abbreviation WIP (Work In Progress) and I also learned to WIP it–WIP it good. (Says Mr. Badpun.)
It’s not watercolor paper–it’s the weird nongrain grain of Formica.
“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.” –E.M. Forster
Thanks, Michel, for your as always Pure Gold input!
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I’m definitively a completist. I like it as it is. And it’s fun to see unfinished work, outside of a class environment, you almost only see finished artwork, and I find some of the intermediate steps are often very good looking in themselves.
For example, in my own pen and ink work, some of the pencil sketches are better, because less defined, than the final pen lines. But they all disappear with the eraser.
With pencil, you can see the line I was trying to make; with pen and ink, (especially line art, less in crosshatching), you just see the single crisp final line. And many times, unfortunately, that final line is just 1/2mm off from where I wanted it to be.
I’m intrigued by the finish, looks just like very grainy watercolor paper, but it can’t be.
Michel L
Michel, I hope you do a similar post, literally illustrating what you discuss above.
Indeed, the places to find “unfinished” works are art classes and Internet art support groups. In 2007 I learned the abbreviation WIP (Work In Progress) and I also learned to WIP it–WIP it good. (Says Mr. Badpun.)
It’s not watercolor paper–it’s the weird nongrain grain of Formica.
“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.” –E.M. Forster
Thanks, Michel, for your as always Pure Gold input!