sallyito:

I haven’t been on Tumblr for awhile but that hasn’t meant I’ve stopped drawing!  Recently, a poet friend of mine, K.I. Press, launched her latest poetry book called Exquisite MONSTERS.  This book is meant to be interactive, and can be used for drawing.  In the latter half of the book in a section called “Exquisite Monster (in interchangeable parts)”, the pages are divided into three portions with text roughly corresponding to the head, torso, and legs parts of the body.  You can draw images alongside the text if you like, and then when you’re done, tear the page along the perforated lines and mix and match different heads with different torso or leg parts.  I haven’t filled in the whole book yet but this is my first attempt at drawing one of the ‘exquisite monsters’ described on p.73.  I take whatever portion of the poetic text that appeals to me as an image, and then usually Google it or something close to it and then imaginatively try and render something fitting.  I’ve been drawing an image a day from whatever text appeals to me from the book that day, and this exercise is turning out to be a very fun way of trying to draw out of my head inasmuch as I can do so with the help of Google and my somewhat limited drawing experience!