Looking over the sketchbook revealed a deviation from an initial concept doodle. First I thought of background silhouettes of a pack of wolves baying off in the distance, which in turn triggered a tied-up team in a homestead yard, who in turn igniting the humans in the cabin to emulate the call of the wild. Splitting this into two related but different panels will be the end result, as doing another composition sans people and having just the team reacting to the pack. It’s like baking enough for dinner and having enough leftovers to make another meal out of the same ingredients. Better still, it's like a mental crock pot, and everyone knows that it's always better on the second day, after melding whatever stewing inside. And this one was well worth the wait: I think it's a one of my all-time favorites, plus one of the better drawn cartoons I've done.
One thing in particular that was weird with this one was doing the usual document scan on my iPhone (as opposed to the traditional desktop scanner) and somehow the “Notes” program picked up on and correctly identified the little scribbled line, “Hasui flakes,” done in pencil along the side of the inked panel that I made to remind myself of the inspirational reference image, and so it automatically titled the file saved onto my Iphone as “Hasui flakes.” That’s a little scary.
Speaking of, after being informed by similar imagery for an earlier post/piece (see last week), rediscovering Hasui Kawase was the chef’s kiss, and reinspired me to try again. What I though would be redoubling down on the flakes actually only turned out to refine the process, which worked well enough to let alone until trying again on another wintery composition. Hence the infamous Jacob’s Ladder approach to creating new work; keep chasing my artistic tail and returning time and again back to the proverbial drawing board.
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