Finding it ‘difficult’ to draw is perhaps just as interesting as having a certain amount of natural talent for it.
Any deficiencies we may have in drawing and the way we overcome these inadequacies, can bring about a unique character to our images.
Sound draughtsmanship can be extremely dull if conventionally wrought. Individuality is as much about the shortcomings in our nature, or weaknesses, as much as our strengths.
Awkwardness in drawing is as interesting as fluency.
We make marks with pencil, crayon, ink or paint but the marks we don’t make are just as important as those that we do.
Nothing may well be something.
An eraser can often be as important as the mark-making instrument.
This image is an attempt to celebrate the number 42, which occurs in Lewis Carroll’s books as a significant number.
It also appears in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as representing “the meaning of life, the universe, and everything”.
There are of course 42 instances of the number 42 in the picture.