I see you

I have finally been granted, gentle readers, the opportunity to use the drawing tool that I desired for far too long. Some would say that I was a fool to wait for so long, and I could elicit no response to the wisdom behind such pointed barbs, but I have purchased it in a manner of my choosing and what a relief it is to say that I am now a proud owner of such a wonderful device. My normal process when I create one of my alleged masterpieces is to always start in the sketchbook, and refine the idea to a point where I feel comfortable spending twenty hours transforming it from a brutish misshapen sketch into something that resembles a polished drawing. Once I am sufficiently satisfied with the drawing and feel that it is strong enough to be put onto canvas I use a sheet of vellum and trace the image.
Next I take a permanent marker and trace the image, while this might sound insane and possibly redundant; I need to, because then I trace the back of the vellum with a piece of chalk and I need to be able to see where the lines actually are. If all this sounds like a load of work I assure you that it is, and once I have the chalked the image up I can then tape it to the canvas or piece of paper and begin to once again draw the image. The idea is that the pencil marks place a faint halo of chalk onto the final surface, which means that if you want to be able to see what it is you are going to be working with you need to draw the image again in something a little more forgiving then regular old chalk.
What makes my new tool so exciting is all those extraneous steps can now be skipped because I can work directly from my sketch book with out the constant redrawing of the item I am wishing to work on. I hate to admit but the redundancy of tracing and transferring an image only to redraw it again often leaves me cold from something I initially felt warm to. It could also be further proof that I over think things but I really doubt that is the case.
So when I used my new tool, I was amazed, not because of how the device itself actual works, which is cool I admit, but rather my passion didn’t fizzle out. I started at one in the morning and was please that I had transferred something onto toned paper, but I made the excuse that it was time for bed. But as I lay in my sheets I swear I could feel the call and jolted out of my bed and spent the next two hours working like a feverous mad man. I am not saying this device will make me a great artist, only hard work, and integrity can bless those attributes onto someone but I feel like it allows me to cut down all the steps that have bogged me down and allows me the chance to speed up.
Next I plan on conquering my fear of colour. Black and white I have mastered but I do like a challenge.