I was looking through my iphoto images and found this photo I took of a sketch and some musings of mine from around 2010/2011. I kind of had a fascination at the time of drawing mundane things -- like umbrellas or still lives, and I think I still have that fascination sometimes. It's interesting to draw something and in drawing and delighting in the details really realize how beautiful even simple things are -- like the folds of the fabric in partially closed table umbrellas. The top comments on the page - "Drawing is about learning how to see - for me it is a recording of things I find somehow stunning in hopes that others will be able to find beauty in them as well, even if they are normally found to be simple, common, commercial, mundane" - speak to this delight and fascination. The bottom part deals more with something I was processing, which was my desire to draw things from life and as they are rather than drawing in a comic style or from my imagination, though both of those seemed significantly more popular to audiences at the time. I still would like to develop more of an illustrative style that would be less directly derived from life, but it isn't something I have put a lot of effort into yet -- something I ought to put more effort into.
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