Pencil drawing 'Ritual' by Jono Dry

Time lapse of the process behind the drawing 'Ritual' 165cm x 114cm, Pencil on paper.

I spent around 300 hours on this piece. I hope this time lapse can give you some insight into my process and technique.

I found myself intimidated by the task of naming this piece. It’s an interesting part of the process to give your work a title. It’s this opportunity to use words to add to it, to give it a nudge in a direction. You want to do it justice and not limit its potential by putting it into a box. But the more I tried to give it something with words, the more I found I was just revealing my own limitations towards the work. Once you let a work go and share it, something amazing happens. It becomes this small puzzle piece in other people’s creative process. They send back their interpretation...