Girls girls girls

I love drawing girls. Always have, always will. I think it all started with the girly comic magazines I read when I was a child. I wanted to be able to draw those pretty faces and so I did. Well, I tried anyway. I drew them in sketchbooks, I traced them with tracing paper or carbon paper, I drew them in my school note books. Girls everywhere all the time. It's the one thing I can draw now without thinking: girls faces. A proof that practice really is key, haha.

Imagine my surprise when I entered the online mixed media world to see that everybody seemed to be drawing girls. It made me a little apprehensive sometimes. I mean, we all want to be original (or is that just me?) and to draw girls or put girls on a mixed media background, well, that seemed to be anything but.

But we must follow our hearts and our passions and I can't help myself. I must draw girls and I must draw them often. So I might as well give in. So here's a post about some girls that just came out of my head.

The first three are spreads from my small carry on sketchbook. They were done in a brush marker and were drawn very quickly. The small book measures 15x15 cm (6x6 inches). You can see how that's a problem to take pictures of by my fingers appearing in every picture to keep the damn thing open. ;-)

I always think it's odd that I like to draw pretty girls when I have so little in common with them, nor care anything about those things in real life. I think it's all part of a fantasy or something. Just the world on the page. I don't know...

The next two spreads are from the Studio Book which is considerably bigger and measures 25x25 cm (10x10 inches). These girls were done in brush marker and felt tip pens. They are actually an unfinished project that was going nowhere, so I decided to just paste them in the sketchbook for safe keeping. The making of them did inspire me to do the colouring book zine that's still in the making, because somebody asked me if they were colouring book images that I had just coloured in. So even unfinished projects can lead to other projects!

I guess I will keep drawing girls for the rest of my life and why not? They are fun and they come easy to me. I suppose we all have something we are drawn to no matter what. If I don't know what to draw I draw a girl. If a background seems to be going nowhere I put a girl in front of it. If I want to feel safe in my art, I draw a girl. I suppose it's comforting in a way to have something like that.

So...do you have anything you draw all the time no matter what? I'd love to know. Tell me all about it in the comment section!

Wishing you a wonderful and artsy Wednesday!