Negative space

Now this was a real challenge to me but shouldn't have been. I should explain. As a software engineer, I have to think in a binary world of true and false, hence the background for my blog. Often I have to think in a logically negative way where true is false and false is true. So, using a black pad and a white gel pen (thank you to Lisa Le Quelenec for inspiring me to get one), I attempted to sketch people and buildings in a totally different way, using a negative pencil on negative paper, white on black, a sort of latter day scraper board. Confusing to say the very least :)

Buildings were reasonably straightforward but people, especially faces were more of a challenge. This is just a single page of quick sketches but nethertheless  I thought it was an interesting 'seeing' exercise. I also thought that it would be much easier with a more painterly media that can produce variable tones such as white pastel or coloured pencil rather than a linear media such as pen. All part of the journey :)