A Little Bit of Process: Sower

For a panel in my work-in-progress, I first sketched out the image I had in my head (3 Jl 2021):

pencil sketch of a faceless, hairless body walking to the left; with her left hand she tosses five small objects away from her; the ground slopes behind her and a sun occupies the top left corner; an orange line is drawn roughly around the image on the left and at bottom

Afterwards I wrote a brief description in the word-processing document that includes the text for the entire story:

<ZAJ: walking along barren, bare yellow-brown land, casting handful of five tiny dark-brown seeds to ground, has NO bag with more seeds; wears simple jeans loose and baggy, thin button-up long-sleeved shirt open at top with undershirt beneath, sleeves rolled at elbows, boots under pants legs; show land going on and on around her, all bare>

A year and a half later (7 Fb 2023) I finally got around to doing a regular drawing, which I did without more than a glance at the original sketch. I ended up with this:

pencil drawing of a woman walking towards the right but looking towards the left; with her right hand she tosses five small items away from her; the land in the background looks rough and shows no vegetation

Two months later I happened to look at the sketch version again and couldn’t help thinking it was much superior in feeling to the “finished” drawing (which I had examined recently when posting it in “Teaser Fragments 8”).

So I made a new drawing (12 Ap 2023):

pencil drawing of a woman walking towards the left; with her left hand she tosses five small items away from her; the sloping land in the background looks rough and shows no vegetation; a large sun occupies the top right corner

And I’ll be using this one for the final work.