well
I am going to make a drawing
And I have selected an image
of the Milkmaid by Vermeer
I have
two markers
red and blue
and
I just start with red
and I just want to make a simple, uncomplicated drawing
not going to make too much an effort
so just a quick sketch
And in fact I want
the head of the milkmaid
put it on paper one way or the other
and
you can do that very carefully, but you can also
work more freely
I am looking now at that angle
so, this
so how can I... this
process that in a simple way in a drawing
so in my mind I already make this movement
so
there he stands
that
then that one has to be put down
and then we have here
this part of her forehead
this
and now I have put down more or less the contours of the head of the Milkmaid
very crude
I mean, if you see this just like that, you wouldn't recognize the Milkmaid in there
and
Now I find it interesting to work with hatchings
to, let's say, the hatching for the eyes
and the shadows, to put that in
so
here we have, more or less
the head, as main form
here
so I am just going to make hatchings and
it doesn't have to be a hundred percent correct
Neither I am going to work precise
it is just
no holding back
so, there it goes
I start with these lines here
they are parrallel to this
that is actually quite straightforward
it is about here
so there I go
and I just go over that border, because there is also a shadow
gradually you'll see it appear
and... here
I will also define what she is wearing
and
the moment that there is a sort of base
of hatchings you can
adjust, so it is a new base for what you do further
now I have here this line
and I don't feel like
putting down too much of these sort of lines, cause I find that ugly
so I will look wether this line
which I do find important
for the image
can be put down in hatchings
and I do that this way
and you see that this has a sort of regularity
gradually it becomes smaller
in my head I have, beforehand, the hatchings of that line
before I put them down
so I imagine beforehand how it will turn out
and
I have this line here
that shall be about here
and you see that those lines are somewhat further apart
because this has to be less dark in tonal value
so by putting down those lines somewhat further apart
you get that
and then I have here also
and I just prolong hatching
because there has to be some corrections
it's not totally right yet
oops, on the table even
so I just look at the larger forms
and here I have also some
and if I want a less dark tonal value, I just put those hatchings a little further apart
now I feel it's time she starts to resemble her
so now I am going to watch more closely, this or that
like, that eye
but I like to keep it in this type of hatchings
and I just continue
and I also look through my eyelashes all the time, to look for the tonal values of the  different parts of the face
this is just a little lighter than this for example
there has to be a hatching here aswell
and the more you proceed
the longer you work on it
you see that it gets defined more clearly
And I also have a blue marker
so I also like to work with blue
I think it starts to be defined reasonably
but not completely yet
the mouth
so now I am really looking for places to put accents
to get a better definition
so I am not putting down very broad lines
or very long lines
but it's really looking, how can I
make that drawing
corrected, that's it now
while you are working
at a certain moment you lose the definition somewhat
the right form
so now I try
the correct form of the face in there
and I continuously look through my eyelashes aswell
and sometimes I divert from
the direction of those lines
subtly
so there develops a sort of cross-hatching in a way
but not too much
and slowly
the milkmaid appears more and more
look, you can see a darker area at her mouth
here
I think that will have good effect
and sometimes I put down dots
sometimes I place dots instead of lines
when I want small details or small hatchings
and
I don't want to continue now for too long...
so
I take red for a little while
I have the tendency to put red and blue in every detail
here was only blue and here too
and I want to have some red
so you get everywhere... and now I want some blue overhere
so you get the combination of red en blue everywhere
I have the feeling this gives a certain vibration
a visual vibration
and
I am considering... shall I make it really detailed
some of the nose can be added
I don't feel like to totally work it out
what's in it now you might lose that
I think this is just a nice sketch
and
I'm not saying it resembles really well
but it's fun to work based on such a work of art
on a drawing
here some dots to make it complete
I don't think I want to do much about it now
I leave it this way
it's a nice quick sketch
