Babalon Jones
color version coming up
Thanks Alta and closrapexa for weighing in. I totally agree.
It is funny in a way. Sometimes when I draw the sketch for a card, unplanned things happen, sometimes very interesting things. Sometimes I find the things I thought I put in at random as being in some obscure writing, though I wasn't aware of that at the time of putting it there. So at first I didn't automatically consider it a mistake; I had to analyze it.
The rough sketch for the card actually had seven 7's instead of the letters there. But when I drew the final sketch for the card the muse or whatever decides these things had me change them to the letters, and instead put in the seven 7's as the formula (77+((7+7)/7)+77) elsewhere in the disk. But being tired and it being late and I was trying to finish the card that day I must have sketched them in the wrong way, finished the drawing that way and only after looking at it again realized it.
Then it was an enigma and kept me up all that night wondering why I did that and did it mean anything to me or should I just fix it. Because this is my signature card. Was it just because it isn't my native language and though I know better I was on autopilot/tired? Or was it a case of drinking and drawing, as it was around my birthday and I was chilling out?
What I realized is that even if there was some deep insight to be had by it I could never leave it that way, as it would make me crazy to do so, and also I'd get random emails from people who noticed saying "Hey numb-nuts, you wrote it wrong!" and I'd have to explain. Sounds exhausting!
that would get old quick
So anyway, all to say, I just finished the color version of the card. Took all day, from 9am til 8pm with only a dinner break. It took lots of coats of the ink. Maybe because of the earth element, it wanted to be built up solid and opaque in areas, which takes a lot of time. The letters are right to left, all set.
The ink on the color version is drying as I type this, and I'll post the color version as soon as it is dry enough to scan.
Thanks Alta and closrapexa for weighing in. I totally agree.
It is funny in a way. Sometimes when I draw the sketch for a card, unplanned things happen, sometimes very interesting things. Sometimes I find the things I thought I put in at random as being in some obscure writing, though I wasn't aware of that at the time of putting it there. So at first I didn't automatically consider it a mistake; I had to analyze it.
The rough sketch for the card actually had seven 7's instead of the letters there. But when I drew the final sketch for the card the muse or whatever decides these things had me change them to the letters, and instead put in the seven 7's as the formula (77+((7+7)/7)+77) elsewhere in the disk. But being tired and it being late and I was trying to finish the card that day I must have sketched them in the wrong way, finished the drawing that way and only after looking at it again realized it.
Then it was an enigma and kept me up all that night wondering why I did that and did it mean anything to me or should I just fix it. Because this is my signature card. Was it just because it isn't my native language and though I know better I was on autopilot/tired? Or was it a case of drinking and drawing, as it was around my birthday and I was chilling out?
What I realized is that even if there was some deep insight to be had by it I could never leave it that way, as it would make me crazy to do so, and also I'd get random emails from people who noticed saying "Hey numb-nuts, you wrote it wrong!" and I'd have to explain. Sounds exhausting!
that would get old quick
So anyway, all to say, I just finished the color version of the card. Took all day, from 9am til 8pm with only a dinner break. It took lots of coats of the ink. Maybe because of the earth element, it wanted to be built up solid and opaque in areas, which takes a lot of time. The letters are right to left, all set.
The ink on the color version is drying as I type this, and I'll post the color version as soon as it is dry enough to scan.