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Well, 250 lines or so, I estimate. The point being, I have a very systematic method which limits me, and I jolly well know when the drawing is done.
(I have been busy, but not with the TV show, which is very slow going. I moved to a new location, a mall which used to be referred to as the jail bait mall. Well, it turns out that my business doubled!!!! And, I learned something about marketing to my community. I have been very busy.)
I have been contemplating the dilemma of overworking a drawing. I would rather stick to my format and dump the drawing, than overwork it. I like to leave the lines alone and learn to trust my lines. It boils down to the integrity of the drawing itself. It is hard to correct a drawing, especially graphite, without doing it damage. If you are in the early stages of layout, that is one thing. But if you have a network of lines and you try to erase a few of them, you destroy the network.
It is much easier to fall subject to overworking if you are a photo realist, as there is a bottomless pit of detail you indulge in. If you work this way, you cannot give the viewer any small detail to criticize. ANy small error will be rejected by the mind. If you draw like an impressionist you get the landmarks right but are looser in the interpretation of the masses. You allow the viewer to use his imagination and fill in the blanks. He forgives the lines and thus the likeness emerges without the busy work. It is entertaining to the mind. It is an illusion of a likeness.
I will post a drawing tonight {when I am on a PC which has some drawings) to illustrate my point.
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