Day ninety-six of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
Yes, I'm aware that if that bee flaps its wings, the building will collapse.
But, after almost 100 days, I've confirmed something I suspected. But possibly wasn't quite as blatant before as it is in yesterday's sketch.
The first line I drew of this sketch was along the underside of the front of the honey shop's roof.
It's actually pretty accurately horizontal.
But then, do you know what I must have done, on auto-pilot, and not corrected for as I was drawing most of the horizontal lines of the shop's walls?
In other sketches, it would be less jarring, but in this one, it's glaring. I mean, the slant of the corrugated roof isn't terrible. Even the slanted-vertical corners of the shop aren't that bad.
What's throwing everything out is the (not) horizontal lines of the weatherboard.
So, I'm right-handed (I know. How boring...) And when I write almost anything, I don't have my writing material square to the desk. I'm going to guess you don't either.
I tilt my writing material probably about 45 degrees so that the top of the page leans quite heavily to the left.
Clearly, this is such an unconscious thing for me to do. And, given I'm using a hardback visual diary to draw in, which has certain constraints versus a flat piece of paper, I'm not really thinking about it. And obviously not correcting for it.
So then you think the honey shop in Wombat Creek has narrowly stood up to a tornado.
Except, in reality, you'd know that wasn't likely because Australia doesn't have tornadoes.
But a little under two months after we drove through here, one of the numerous vicious bushfires that razed rural Australia before, during and after our visit hit the surrounding areas. Thankfully the honey shop survived unscathed.
It definitely fared better in the bushfires than in my wonky drawing.
Maybe if you squint, you can pretend the horizontal lines are actually horizontal on the front of the building. And the correct angle for the perspective on the side of the building has been achieved.
Or maybe just get drunk, and it will all look perfectly aligned?
Despite the poor result, at 70 minutes, this came in as one of - if not the - lengthiest sketch sessions for this year's project. I'm not entirely sure it was time well spent.
The original sketch was drawn with a 4H pencil and then variously overdrawn and shaded with a 6B, 2B, B, HB and heavier weight 4H pencil.