Platform Game: Troll Mode Drawing

Biomorphic illustration created via the klecksography* technique; I layer watercolour washes and then draw the images that appear in my mind’s eye. There is lots going on in this biomorphic play on the classic platform game with a little troll character.

*most people think of Klecksography as inkblot test on a folded piece of paper a la Rorschach, however, Rorschach based his method upon the Victorian Parlour game of ‘klecksography’ of turning ink blots into drawings. It was only later when developing his theories on unconsciousness that he began folding the paper to create parallel images as he felt this would make it easier for viewers to see the ‘hidden’ images more clearly.

I have evolved my art over a life time from my own childhood love of playing klecksography or ‘scribble pictures’ as I called them.