I’ve been thinking about “white space” lately.
In the picture below I was trying to show the shape of two hands reaching down from above. The white space is the most important feature of the drawing, but several people I showed it to didn’t notice it or recognize the hands! So I admit a failure on my part.
I can’t blame the viewer for not seeing what I wanted them to see, but I have continued to think about white space since then…
Anyway, I was doodling on graph paper one day and it led to a series of sketches where I drew a cross shape very lightly in the center of the page, then put various shapes around it, and then drew lines from the shapes toward the center until the shape hit the cross. Then I erased the lightly drawn cross shape.
Each arrangement of shapes created a unique “white space” in the center, which is interesting to me.
There’s no way to predict what the center space will look like until you do the work!
Would you like to try coloring some of your own?
Here are the blank pages…
