I hear all the time from my students “It was looking good then I added the colour and I wrecked it.” I always tell them that if you’re not wrecking some drawings then you’re not trying hard enough – if you don’t experiment until you wish you’d stopped, how will you ever know it’s as good as it can get? Kill your darlings! If those thoughts don’t embolden you enough then scan or take a picture of it first, then keep going – at least you’ll have a digital copy of it the way you liked it.
Even easier when you’re adding the colour with your fancy digital tools and you can simply save older versions or turn layers off – it’s the dream of raving indecisives like me. At least I think it is, I’m not sure…
