Coffee time!

Coffee? Oh yes, nothing better than a coffee break at work! This is what gets me through a day most of the times and this wee sketch happened with coffee in mind. 

Great soft crayons in use here, as usual, oh, and i left it monochrome. Colours sometimes take something important away. I know, nearly a paradox! But in my opinion actually a real fact as well. Don't get me wrong, I am all for the 'colourfulness' and fun and rainbows, but from the very start of my drawing career, I was quite conscious of keeping a balance in my drawings. In everything. Not too much chaos if I know that is not my intention. Not too much colour if I know its not the result that I want to achieve. Not too much shading, changes, wriggly lines. Not too overcrowded with different shapes overlapping, floating in the background or just simply distracting from the main theme. (Unless, of course, chaos is my main theme!) Because I always ask myself, what is it that makes my drawing or picture interesting?, and whatever the answer I need to make sure it is the most prominent part of the composition and that nothing else is distracting the viewer. 

Also, what can be interesting, is the fact that we perceive art very differently and somebody can say the teddy bear is the main focus of the girl drawing you can see above. But is it really? There are many other, better and more complicated examples, obviously, but even in a sketch like this one composition is the most important (one of the magic ingredients that makes a drawing interesting, isn't it?) and I always try to think of it somewhere in the early stages of my projects...whether it would work the same way at the end of it, it's a totally different kettle of fish.