Linear #1

So, this is the largest drawing project I’ve ever undertaken – all-in-all it took approximately 60 hours, but spread over 5 years..

The story goes like this: I started it and spent around 30 hours over 3 weeks trying to finish it, but I put it down for a while and as I progressed with other pieces, I lost track with it. My style of drawing evolved, my understanding of abstract art and the importance of flow within a piece became stronger. As the time went on, the drawing I had started was alien to me and none of the styles that I had learned matched it. So it sat there, gathering dust and the paper yellowing.

Then in 2010 I had an epiphany.. or more like I just desperately wanted to finish the piece. I picked up my pencil tentatively and attacked it.. Nervous of ruining the two thirds I’d already completed by adding “modern Linear Art” to it, I stopped and started, uhm’d and ah’d.. then a breakthrough came and I knuckled down and adapted all of my styles together.

So here it is.. my Magnum Opus – Linear #1.

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Linear #65

So, I gave you Linear #1, my magnum opus, but if you haven’t read my “About Me” section you may be unaware of the drawing that effectively started my ‘next level’ artwork.

Linear #65 (below) I’d got all the way to #64 and then I spoke to a friend of mine, Ella, over a Saturday drawing session. Ella is a proper artist.. what I mean by that is she gets paid for her artwork – lots of faeries and fantasy drawings and all manner of beautiful imagery. I digress, she showed me that by adding flow to my drawings I can draw the eye across the page via all the elements I want viewers to see, I took her advice and haven’t looked back since. My work has improved twenty-fold after that day.. So thanks Ella, if I list inspirations for my pieces you’ll be up there with Dali and Escher.

Linear #65