Sketch of a bizarre headless figure with flying head
Digital sketch on iPad. February 2025
A digital sketch from the imagination, drawn on an iPad.
This sketch was drawn spontaneously, with no preconceived idea of what I was going to draw.
It’s quite bizarre and fantastical, maybe a bit unsettling and grotesque.
The process involved drawing the slightly random black form of the body first and then adding additional elements that were suggested by the shape of the body. The giant hands were the first additions. These suggested that the figure should remain headless.
The hands seemed to be grasping for something, which suggested a floating object just out of reach of the hands. This in turn suggested that a floating head could be the object, particularly because the figure had no head.
This in turn gave rise to the idea that the head could actually be flying, and that it could be doing so with the use of extra-large ears (possibly reflecting the extra-large hands of the headless figure).