I was going to print this as a demonstration with the rolling-pin press but that fell through, so the block has been lurking in my bag for a few days. I woke up about 2am and couldn't gett back to sleep, so I got up at 4.30 and decided to run off a couple of proofs to see what it looks like. I think I need to trim a bit off the bottom line of the ankle, but apart from that I'm happy with how it's turned out. The picture is based on the drawing I did for day 31 of Inktober. The prompt was Risk and I think I'll keep that name.
The original drawing is a very light and airy line drawing, but I felt the print called for it to be night time. Doing feet had brought to mind something Tal R said about drawing people, the difficulties of drawing "nose, eyes ... and feets." I added the moon partly to reference something he said in one of the Louisiana Channel interviews, "The moon sees a lot." The moon certainly has a better idea of what is going on here. Better than me, anyway.
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