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‘Gaze of the Serpentine Queen’

- Digitally drawn in Creative Cloud

This piece was a lot of fun to draw. I hope you enjoy it.

This was drawn free hand. The most enjoyable part of drawing a symmetrical piece of art freehand is the concentration is requires to pay attention to every minute detail. Being detail oriented it becomes a game of how intricate I can get, while being able to replicate it symmetrically. Sometimes I will construct a large area of the artwork, very detailed and intricate… just having fun and getting lost in the movements… then look back to the opposite side of the drawing that is yet untouched, and kinda be like, “Shit… Now I have to redraw that again….as a mirror image.” Without using copy paste, without using rulers or any special measuring devices, I am left with my focus and quantitative reasoning. Is that object the same size as the opposite side? Is that curve similar enough where it looks right, or will it cause a minute shift that will begin to throw off the whole symmetry, hours later? Symmetry for me is a quest to fool the mind into thinking it is just that. Even though in actuality the left and right sides of the drawing are different, and ever so slightly unique. But not different enough so that it looks as if it was done unintentionally or unskillfully. Just enough to give each side a bit of character.

Description

‘Gaze of the Serpentine Queen’

- Digitally drawn in Creative Cloud

This piece was a lot of fun to draw. I hope you enjoy it.

This was drawn free hand. The most enjoyable part of drawing a symmetrical piece of art freehand is the concentration is requires to pay attention to every minute detail. Being detail oriented it becomes a game of how intricate I can get, while being able to replicate it symmetrically. Sometimes I will construct a large area of the artwork, very detailed and intricate… just having fun and getting lost in the movements… then look back to the opposite side of the drawing that is yet untouched, and kinda be like, “Shit… Now I have to redraw that again….as a mirror image.” Without using copy paste, without using rulers or any special measuring devices, I am left with my focus and quantitative reasoning. Is that object the same size as the opposite side? Is that curve similar enough where it looks right, or will it cause a minute shift that will begin to throw off the whole symmetry, hours later? Symmetry for me is a quest to fool the mind into thinking it is just that. Even though in actuality the left and right sides of the drawing are different, and ever so slightly unique. But not different enough so that it looks as if it was done unintentionally or unskillfully. Just enough to give each side a bit of character.