Lately my weekends are packed. There's always something to do and someone to meet. And that is how I like it usually since sitting at home all week gets tiresome. But this one Sunday I got to catch my breath and spend some quality time with my boyfriend. I had settled down on a bean bag with a book and coffee, determined to finish some chapters. He put on some good music, grabbed another bean bag and kicked back to relax and chill. We both sat in companionable silence for some time - each of us getting the much needed "me" time. It was nice to sit across each other and then later talk of everything and nothing.
So happy was I that it left an impression on me. And now days later I decided to recreate that moment through a sketch. I had no reference picture, just an image of how we would have looked through a third person's eye. It is hard to draw straight from imagination - there is no concrete picture in my head, just an idea. So the ratios in the sketch are wacky. Capturing our postures and expressions is so hard because, in all honesty, I have never spent any time studying human anatomy. I only have vague intuition of how a lounging human should look like. Sketching was hard enough. Putting in colors was going to be impossible for a color insensitive person like me. So I left it at black and white. Nonetheless, this picture perhaps is the first painting that I have truly created on my own and I am satisfied with. Feel free to give criticism and compliments in the comments.
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