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Reversing Failure

30/12/2011

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When I started drawing again with pen and ink back in August I picked on a drawing I had failed to complete years earlier (pens behaving badly, wrong use of color, excuses, excuses...) and started reworking it from scratch. 

I think that the result – my work “Arena”, featured in a previous blog post – is decent, and at least I finished the second version to my satisfaction (always enough of a reward).

In between doing my regular cartooning, I also completed “Ladies of the Night” – again a picture which I am fairly content with.

Then I spent a month working on a piece but had to give up when the emerging picture was not looking good to me – and spending time on it began to feel like so much time wasted. With “In-Nemmiesa” I returned to the drawing
I like; the type of drawing I am eager to come back to and add upon at the end of a day’s work at the office. The evening winding down therapy session I might say…

I was looking at some older work and I came across “Blind Man’s Bluff” (above) dated 1989.
I did two versions of this work, both are sort of completed but neither one is good enough in my opinion.

So whereas in November I decided to give up gracefully on a drawing which wasn’t turning out quite as I wanted, this time (as I did in August) I will rework “Blind Man’s Buff” from scratch. Perhaps it will be third time lucky for this double failure…

I don’t know what inspired me to deal with the subject of sex for sale in such an in-yer-face manner but I suppose it still falls somewhere in my general idea of subjects which intrigue me; relationships, the human condition etc. I will stop here before I start to sound too damn arty farty for my liking.


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Adding Color

19/12/2011

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Starting to add color today. Invariably I find this stage of the drawing exciting even though I am still deliberating on color options as I go along. I use kerosene (pitrolju bil-Malti) to dilute the color pencils together. Three or four colors used in the flesh tones and four for the flaming hair. The finished work will be in the drawings & graphics section by Christmas 2011 - on time and on budget as I promised myself...
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Update

13/12/2011

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I have been drawing this on and off for a month now. I manage to do some work on it for perhaps three or four evenings a week at best. Still a lot of the ink work is now done - apart from the girl who is still pretty  much under done. Color overlay options are also still to be decided.

Home by Christmas? Hopefully.
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Featured!

5/12/2011

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The lovely Leah Gray at Cartoonist Forum published my bio in the Featured Cartoonists area of the forum.

The link is here:
http://www.cartoonist-forum.com/t1471-steve-bonello-featured-cartoonist-interview-bio#7411

Thanks Leah!
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