When I originally began working on this drawing, I was pleased where it was headed. I like the slight distortion to emphasize the emotion in the pose, with perhaps hints of narrative. But as it neared completion, I became more and more dissatisfied with the final. After some thinking and feedback, I re-worked sections, to no avail. It simply did not zing me. Finally it dawned on me that the problem was that the drawing was too tight: too much drawing, too much clarity and not enough ambiguity, stroke quality, and gesture. I've filed it away as a lesson learned and moved on to another, which I promise myself will be less "thought-out" and less fussy.
