My Wednesday evening art zoom is back on, and so are my weekly drawing prompt words. Our word selection method is pretty arbitrary - we pick a random book off the shelf, then a random page number, random line, random word number, etc - So sometimes we end up with words that don't seem all that promising.
This was one of those weeks, but I have to admit: sometimes the weeks where the word seems unlikely result in the most fun pictures!
This week's word was 'congress', and I really didn't want to draw the capitol building, or 17th century rich men in wigs poking fingers in one another's faces, or some snake giving a speech at a lectern, or the CSPAN logo. A bit of research reminded me that 'congress' can be the group noun for salamanders, and of course 'congress' can also refer to sex, so...
I was weirdly happiest with how the grass came out - I often get super nervous about large fields of ground cover, or bushes, or whatever - they seem so detailed! But I decided to apply the advice cartoonists give about drawing hair to drawing the grass this time: don't draw individual blades of grass; draw shapes formed by clumps and peaks of grass instead, then let the shading and color handle the rest. I like how it worked! It's not so realistic, but I think it reads correctly as grass. Since my desired milestones include drawing some comics, I think this style of grass makes more sense anyhow.
As always, thanks for looking at my pictures :D
