I’m torn on whether I should leave my drawings as black and white (as most of them are), or whether I should include colours.
Any comments?

Doesn’t it depend on what you’re drawing?  You draw things that are black and white - I mean figuratively as well as literally.  I don’t think the things you draw have to be black and white - but I think you want them to be.  Life is simpler that way because… you don’t have to decide what color to use.

Let me play psychotherapist and suggest that you draw it in black and white and then draw it with color.  Maybe draw it a few times with color…  I think you’ll be less and less torn as you explore both options on your own.  Have you ever drawn the same thing with and without color?  I suppose you are more aware of the emotional content of color than I am - because of your fine arts education.

I am the kind of person who takes a mile when you give an inch, in terms of opening yourself to others.  I’m sorry if it’s intrusive.

Heh.
I have no fine arts education. I was taught Public Art. It was a lot more about the physical art, welding, sculpture in general…
Towards the end of my education I - almost overnight - suddenly opened up to my current style. It was a lot less specific, but identifiably the same style.

Nothing ever gets repeated with my drawings. Most don’t even have preliminary sketches, and I can’t replicate them.

I know it sounds weird, but my opinion of them is that I just draw the damn things because I need to. I rarely have an idea of what atmosphere I’m going to go for. Some I just end up staring at, trying to decide whether or not blocks of colour would work.

The damn drawings just come out of my brain. There may be psychological depth to them, but it’s not so much in the forefront of thinking.

No worries about the intrusion - I suspect my answer is terribly rambling.

Then I suppose you could just flip a coin to decide the color, eh?  Get rid of all that internal strife and indecision

Kathy, have you checked out pergola2.com?  Tom Pergola has done just what you said - though the objects he’s used have a very personal history.  Check out his site to find out more.

Heh. Useful, Dave.

Kathy (?), the original ‘binty’ was a sculpture. The drawings stemmed from that. Most of them are (or could be, I suppose) sculptures that aren’t.
Some of them seem to need colour, some need none; but the large proportion of them are in between, and to ink them coloured is pretty much final…
Hence my dithering.

Thanks for the compliments.

wakinyan wrote:
To me your drawings look and feel like they are passing for 2D but really are sculpture- or aspire to be 3D sculpture.

Now that’s exactly the impression they’ve been giving me, but I hadn’t thought of it consciously.

Boo, you’ve done well both with colour and without.  In some things colour serves a purpose, in some it doesn’t.  I actually like that your work even in colour is not busy with colour.  I always get a clear, bold impression from your work.  But the work comes from you, so you make the decisions.