Draw What You See, Not What You Hear

"Write a short short (500 words maximum) in which the TV plays a role. Let the words/images on the screen interact with or reflect on the situation in the story. Your characters can be watching TV or it can be background noise."

        
        On roughly bar number eight the hysterical laughter of the square yellow guy and his fellow star-shaped friend is heard along with the sound of the 2B graphite pencil on the pad. The speed of the pencil and the speed of the laughter are one. Half of the drawing is complete but when the time comes for the most precision, sporadic eye movement causes the damage. This is a major disruption, but at least the comic relief from fellow friends of whom there seems to be a correlation between the artist and them exist within the room. The artist can relate to the cartoons just as they can relate to the artist, therefore it's only fair to give them a few minutes of attention, even when it causes yet again another setback...

             

        Crap. Another mistake. But no worries, the eraser will undo the unconscious line made by the hand attempting to draw what it sees, while also trying not to draw what it sees. Interesting. The drawing continues and the line is fixed, but the incessant laughter and jovial happenings continue elsewhere. The level of concentration has shifted back to the pencil and the pad, although the yellow and pink silhouettes of which they have become, haven't been forgotten and then it happens: a commercial accompanied by a pencil switch. 2H.

             

         Apparently "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful," has become even a slogan on the so-called kids channel. Rumor has it that Sara, Emily, Sally, Jane, and Mary need to feel easy, breezy, and beautiful because it's only right for a girl/woman to feel that way. Of course the only way for them to feel that way is if they purchase this wonderful longer lasting "Lash Blast Fusion Water Resistant Mascara" because we'd hate to see Emily, Sara, or any of the girls on the playground crying off all of their mascara. Isn't that a crime now-a-days...to ruin your mascara?  Covergirl.

           

        The friends are back and the pencil has changed. The 2H pencil is soft enough to not disturb the grain of the paper but hard enough to outline or make darker a line needed for later. This portion of the drawing takes the most concentration and attentiveness. The lines are intricate and woven in-between one another and just because two lines share a path does not mean they connect. The hand flows down the page while the jumps and skips of the yellow and pink silhouettes can still be seen in the background with now frequent  harsh interruptions from gray or red shadows. The drawing can be seen clearer now as the shadows become clearer and pencil changes become more and more frequent. Pencil changes include 2B, 2H, 3B, HB, 4B, and on occasion a 5B. The silhouettes dance and exchange spaces with one another. The more pencil changes occur the more frequent new silhouettes are introduced, some of them vaguely recognized, most of them unknown. Everything has become one. Concentration is gone.

New Lesson: "Drawing What's Seen Without Drawing What's Heard."