Jim Kinsey

Exploration XVIII

The drawing 'Exploration XVIII'
Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolour and Ink on Paper

Based on a doodle I did during a presentation at work the very same day; I actually finished it off the following evening (started it 3.8.2005), though it was still very satisfying to have such a fast turn-around.

The doodle wasn't intended as the basis of a new picture in this series, just an abstract collection of shapes and patterns, but I almost immediately started imagining colours and decided there and then it was going to go further.

Once I'd decided this was going to be another picture in this series, naturally I had to come up with a little cartoon spaceship. I did this immediately (there was still some "blah, blah" ing going on at the front of the room). The first one I came up with I rejected for being a bit too boxy. So I took the same basic shape and idea and spruced it up, made it a lot curvier (there was no doubting the colour scheme from the moment I drew these. I wish I knew how that worked).

Then I rejected the curvy one and returned to the boxy one when I came to do the colour picture. I'm not sure that it necessarily suited the image better, I suspect it was more down to rooting for the slightly dowdier, homelier underdog. It was like the my redesign was the model that super-ceded the other, which was being decommissioned and I was giving it one last spin. I really shouldn't get so emotionally involved.

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Spaceship sketches for Exploration XVIII

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