Author Beth Kobliner

This is a study of the aðitriçâ drawing style, a loose and rapid marker sketch using a limited palette of color, a fine ballpoint pen for construction, and a pointed Sharpie marker for impenetrable masses of black. I was reading a book and noted that the author resembled a friend (Asayme /uh-SIGH-muh/). The sketch was produced in well under half an hour. The composing of skin tones was always a threatening endeavor, since the marker ink, though translucent and thin, is indelible and unforgiving. It is a wonder the endeavor wasn’t botched. I learned to live with the warbling tones and artifacts of the style, and now was ready perhaps to take on a portrait of Asayme herself. The simulated typography is as loose as the drawing, buzzing with electricity. Drawn 21 August 1997, Tayya 58a1, five dozen eighth phase (Ñixaþa-Alindðal Xrga, “life phase of Lindsay”), at Cafe Stacks.

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