浪漫菖蒲 / Roman shobu

I greatly dislike it when people who do not have an artistic sense look at my art while I am drawing it and ask me questions like "Are you feeling sad?" as if my own present emotional state would fit the expression of the person I was drawing on the paper.  I suppose that people do express a part of themselves in whatever it is that they may create, but to put it simply in a word like 'sad' or 'mad' seems to cheapens it and misses the point entirely.  It is really quite possible to draw something without seeing it or feeling it exactly at that moment.  I wish people would understand that.  

But in this instance, I really was meloncholy as well as worried when I drew this and wanted to directly express that current state of my mind.

What kinds of facial expressions do you have when you draw?  In my case, though I do not internalize the emotions that I'm trying to express on paper, sometimes I do make the face I want to draw even if I'm not looking at the mirror when doing so.  Sometimes it helps. (^-^;

Sorry for the ranting!  And also the late update.  This was actually supposed to come up on Monday, but various happenings prevented me from getting the motivation needed to finish the draft I made of this post.  Recently because the weather was so horrid, I haven't really felt like doing much.  I was as depressed as the gray skies outside.  Today is so much nicer, and it makes me want to be outside and do stuff!  

Recently I bought a new digital camera so I might put up photos here too to give the sketch journal a bit of color now and then.