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The foundation you don't see.

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Too often people gush about how great a drawing or painting is, ruing the fact that they can't draw that well. They miss understanding the foundation not seen: sketches.

I could expound on how life is a series of sketches until the end, but I'll just keep this strictly about art and not get poetic.

I have piles of bad drawings, sketches, and ill-thought out ideas. I obviously don't show those to many people and hence, my percentage of good vs. crap is seriously skewed. It might appear that I have some good stuff.

Oh, the iceberg below the water, the badly drawn figures and animals, with incredibly off proportions, bad perspective, ill-conceived layouts. There's so much bad art in my collection of efforts, hidden away like my own Frankensteinian monster, lurking in the dark tower of hideousness.

On an older version of my web site (maybe four years ago?) I had my sketchbooks online. Then I took them down. Too embarrassing. But now, with very little pride or self-respect left (a handy thing that starts to kick in as I get older, I've found), I've put them back up. Or at least, I've put up those older sketchbooks that I had online earlier. There are a few new ones that I haven't bothered to badly photograph and waste time putting into a gallery.

So, have a look at those old, embarrassing foundational...drawings. Here.