Lee Si-bang Portrait rough sketch
"What does it show, to have left behind a draft rather than the finished work?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is the under-drawing of a portrait of Yi Si-bang. On the face, left as lines before color was laid, the process by which the painter came to grasp the sitter is plainly visible. If the finished portrait is the result, this draft is the road to that result. It is the unfinished painting that draws my heart instead, for in the lines before they were smoothed, the traces of hesitation and revision are still alive. A person's true form, too, is held more honestly in the corrected marks beneath than in the finished surface. Before smoothing, one is more human.
🌱Apply It Today
Before rushing toward completion, look once, just as it is, at the hesitation and corrected marks left in your rough draft.
