Just A Sketch

    Today for drawing class I brought in some character sketches on a large sheet of drawing paper. I am working on these for an intensive for the Wild, Wild Midwest SCBWI Conference. I was a bit upset when my teacher (awesome artist James Werline) told me that the composition of the sketches on the page could be better.  He then proceeded to take tracing paper and lightly sketched a better way to present the sketches as a whole.  (Sorry I can't show you the sketch, but I don't want to show my work here before Conference.)  
                            
                            As we talked I realized how right he is. I was being lazy.
                         I guess the thought of redrawing everything again filled me with a little dread.
The problem was that I didn't PLAN.  Mr. Werline emphasized planning my drawing, even if it is "just a sketch".

Point two, he said my sketches were messy.  All that moving around the page with 

no planning blurred my pencil lines.  But it's they are JUST SKETCHES!  Just sketches 

I will be showing to an ART DIRECTOR!  Neatness counts.   
    



I do fear I may loose something in transferring my original sketches.  

Here is a little 
example of that (and messy sketching)....
Yes, the first one was messy, but I think more sucessful.  When I redrew and inked I changed the eyes for some reason.  The plan was to do it as a little comic.  NOT totally thought out yet.
    
  

   Plan your composition and be neat when presenting your work!  
Thank you Mr. Werline for waking me up. Now I better get some sleepppp.