Drawing of Ganesha, Hindu elephant headed god, for screen print design

Somewhere along the line in my drawing career (if you can call it that), I have become impatient.  I noticed this unsettling fact a few years ago but kept on doing things in my normal, fast way until I found that I was no longer satisfied with the work I was creating.  As a response, lately, I have been challenging my patience with projects involving higher demand on my concentration and loads more time than I used to spend on the creation of any drawing.  I find that taking a new approach by incorporating a greater amount of detail has refreshed my interest in drawing but has the down side of slowing my productivity quite a lot.

This drawing of Ganesha is one such drawing that I did to increase my mindfulness and push my patience.  Here, you can see the progress from beginning to end as I worked out my drawing and made it into a screen printed shirt design.

I began with a pencil drawing.  Since this is going to have a lot of detail, I want to get most of it down before spending the time inking.  As a sort of creature of habit, I always draw wit one of the same two .5 mechanical pencils I have used for years (this one being the Sakura which is very comfortable to draw with.)  Also, I always keep a white plastic eraser around as they are the only ones that actually work.

Once the graphite part is generally established, I went at it with a black 05 Micron pen

I really enjoyed drawing the hands and feet since they are kind of like a baby's...

This is the final inked drawing which was scanned for screen printing:

The stencil is made from a film positive version of my drawing that is burned to a screen

Traditionally, Ganesha is depicted seated on some sort of throne so I added this background element to the shirt design:

 The final printed product still hot on the press

 This shirt (and many more) is available in styles for Men and Women at my shop: Closet of Mysteries

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