The People Behind My Eyes

I know I’ve got about 25 different drawings completed this week of little children with leaves for hair. I figure when I seem obsessed with one particular image it means there’s something I need to process out. Right now I’m focused on kids with leaves for hair. Most of them are girls, a few are boys and maybe 5 or 6 are adult women.

None of them are smiling. I usually don’t put smiles on my drawings. Most of them have their eyes closed and most of them are singles. Only 2 or 3 have more than one girl in the drawing. I guess what’s interesting to me as well is these were all done in pencil. I hardly ever use a pencil for sketches. I use black gel pens. These pencil drawings were so light I had to work my butt off to get them to show up on the scanner. So, whatever it is I’m attempting to process out via art work is something I’d rather keep at a whisper. That’s what I think anyway. Usually my strokes are well defined and it’s not hard at all to scan them. You don’t have to get in bright light to see the lines nor do you have to have 20/20 sight to make out the image but with many of what I’m calling “Leaflets” you do.

There are three that I’ve uploaded and all three of them have digital alterations. The other two are here.

Austin