Drawing a Bad Lot

Well, I said I'd show you results of drawing.This first one took 45 minutes. It was to accompany the opening line of my book, "There was no woman more beautiful than the queen...." I want my 45 minutes back.

Readers are to imagine someone beautiful, wearing a crown and royal robes. All this looks like is a ladies' rest room door.

The next experiment was a sketch on paper, scanned into the computer. You'd think I could load this into the computer, clean it up, and fill it in with color, right? Wrong. There are fifty shades of white in that scan, and that solid black line is fifty shades of black.

I did try to hand-color the areas, but the hand-eye coordination on a computer really is different. It's also something I don't have the aptitude to do well, as you can see for yourself..

Since the idea is to start right in on my writing project and achieve the holy grail of 'closure' for the first time in my life, I will abandon the idea of 'visuals' and try my best to just finish the book.

After all, one had to draw the line somewhere, right?