Making progress

with a little help from my [Substack] friends

When I posted my last attempt at the ‘lonely in a crowd’ piece, I received some extremely helpful feedback from readers (thank you - this is why I am so enjoying this particular way of working on this project).

The blue background clearly had to go, but solid black seemed a bit too severe and, well, black and white, so I used a blank watercolour brush pen to add some dark texture to a fresh blank page.

While I was ruminating, I sent a photo of the original not great piece to the local printer and had several copies made. I cut two of them up and then layered the bits into this new version.

I much prefer the imagery (not a great photo - but it was hard to capture as the printer printed on semi-glossy photo paper… ) this time around - would love to hear your thoughts on the doppleganger.

The lettering isn’t right - and now looks even more out of place than in the original. However, I have not stuck all of this down too carefully, so I can swap that out tomorrow. Thoughts?

Overall, though, I think this is a step in the right direction, so I’m really glad I shared the earlier attempt because I don’t know that I would have got this far without that detour into ‘ewwww - not quite’ land.

Thanks for reading (subscribing, sharing, all that good stuff)! I’ll be back tomorrow, probably with yet another iteration.