Shaping up

Been spending a few hours striving to get ideas down on paper in a way that's meaningful - that contains the essence of the work that might get made from the ideas...

The stuff I'm digging at the moment is based around simple shapes & cutouts with scribbled/painterly detail added after the fact ... but I've been really struggling to 'sketch' my ideas out. Pretty much all of the line sketches have been missing - they're not matching with the ideas in my head, it's been driving me mad. I realised that I had to find a quick and easy way to play around with bold shapes but couldn't think how to approach it - get the paints out? paper cutouts & collage?....

Long story - short... I messed around with the Wacom again for an hour, working directly in Illustrator & potentially I think it might fit the bill... I'm just going to need to develop ways of making the marks I want to make but I'm pretty excited with how I can get experimental with shapes... If I can get that flowing, stuff should really start to happen. I'm congratulating myself for missing the obvious once again :)