Drawing discourse, deliberation dissertation. (Only sort of)

Speaking of drawing: 

It's been so long since I drew something. The last one being, well, last month. 

Nothing kept me back or away from it, just that I didn't get the kind of time you need for commiting yourself to a piece of drawing. 

I guess I needed to fall sick to start drawing. Something like a pictorial version of word vomit..'delineation barf'? 

Wow Dave McKean..I mean wow. Well McKean is McKean and I'm me. His illustrations have an insanely edgy fantastically surreal flow, whereas mine do not look nearly as effortless. But wow! (Honestly, I've never much thought what my drawings actually look like. How they seem or how they're perceived. And now I'm wondering) 

I love drawing lines, patterns, animals, leaves..and end up tormenting myself over details, dots and other small things that are mostly invisible. 

Started on a new drawing. It's nothing out of the box, just a regular Mandala. More like a need to incessantly scratch fine liners on good paper. 

To maintain the proportional integrity of a mandala you need to remember all those geometrical rules you'd kind of forgotten after school. 

You know, radius, diameters, angles, intersections..the works. 

It can be as intricately complicated or as loose as one'd like. 

Might've gone a bit overboard with nooks and crannies here, but it'll keep me occupied to the end of the audiobook. 

Mandala or drawings like these are easy because they've patterns repeated over and over. Something about mindless repetitive activity that's so calming. 

But it's not something for the impatients at heart or those who have trouble staying glued to their seats. 

This mandala will take at least 8-10 hours to complete. Depending on the amount of details added.  

This one will be pretty detailed. 

It serves as a good practice to steady your hand while drawing with pens..and I've been doing watercolours so long, this feels like a much needed exercise. 

The only downfalls and one that I'm already feeling is the resurfacing aches in my neck.

Drawings that are enqued: 

Will be doing another dinosaur in my moleskine.  A Watercolour drawing after that and so on and so forth. 

Man did I have a lot to talk about drawing.