Like Scratching An Itch.

Tangles: Waybop, Moonpie, Shattuck, Orbs/Tipple, Fescue. On a White Zendala with a Maptangled background, additional graphite and colored chalk pencils.

This fell out of my pen over the last 3-4 days.  But somehow I don't feel that it's quite finished.

Hmmm.  The more I study this, the more I want to add a bit.  I think there is more tinkering to be done.  How does one ever know that it's time to stop?

"When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit."  --Wm. K. Zinsser

-Later the same day-

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!  Indeed, I wasn't finished.  Here is the finished version. 

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Yep, it's done.

Here's the side-by-side comparison:

This morning.

This afternoon.

The whole process was interesting.  For one thing, I loved the background until I started tangling on it, and then suddenly I started disliking every line I drew.  Too shaky.  Too uneven.  I'm doing it wrong. 

But what the heck...I stayed with it until I thought I was done, and surprised myself by liking it much more than expected.

...which lasted 5 minutes.  Something felt off still. 

So I went back to the drawing board and added just a bit more color in the center and voila, now it feels done, and I've gone from disliking to quite liking it.  There's a big lesson in here for me.  I keep learning this same lesson--but this time I noticed I'm trusting the lesson more.