Period Two, learning what not to want

A struggling period for me. Trying to find a way to draw like in the workshop, but then much bigger. The largest artwork being 2 by 1.5 meters (last 2 photos in slideshow) in which each line can be seen and each line was a torture to make: the wall on which i hang the paper was very rough and i had to press hard on the siberian chalk to make heavy think lines :(

But i don't like that big one. I prefer the finer lines of pencil that i used for other big drawings in this period. Plain charcoal also isn't very usefull when trying to draw precise, clear lines >.<

At the end of this period i felt a bit stuck, my imagination wasn't sufficient enough to make up new shapes that aren't generic and are abstract. I knew i would need an inspiration, wether it's something i see in nature or something from a photograph. But using an image felt a bit fake, inferior to what i make myself (Plato's mimesis :P ). What i learned in Period Three (the Minor period) was that images aren't inferior as long as i don't mimic them but use specific details of them and transform it into something completely different. It all sounds very vague but if you look at my blogpost in March 2008 about the Minor u might see what i mean.

Summary: Period 2 taught me more about technique than what my fasciniation is. I learned what i did NOT like :P