I also bought a pair of magnifying glasses over the summer, which helps me draw a lot of the small detail work.
I don't know how I'm going to draw any of the figures here (I still haven't figured out postures or faces), but we'll just have to see.

This is the second version, after I spent a couple months drawing the score I've been posting. It's a bit blurry, but you can probably see that the details are more complex, the shading is better, and I (hopefully) have a better repertoire of textures and marks.

I don't yet know how I might integrate this with the inking work I've done on the other sheets from this series, but I feel like this is more interesting material to work with than the previous stuff. I'm not sure how the watercolor will factor into this, but we'll see.
Progress!

Rather than everything being on the surface, here it feels more like some of the lines are fading away into a hazy, indistinct background. And something else I wanted from this, there's a feeling that the perspective isn't quite real, that things have different vanishing points.

I'm still trying to figure out what repertoire of visual forms I want to use for this score, still struggling with how to draw things that aren't "signs" but can still be interpreted musically.
Maybe I need to spend more time studying Haubenstock-Ramati's scores.

But this also shows how hard it is to have any control when working with watercolor: even though I'm using pencils and adding water after, getting the shape I want is difficult. Getting the exact color (or blend) seems almost impossible. I'm happy with the blue, but the orange and yellow less so.

The original also had some gray added around the edges that you don't see here. I'm not sure if it's needed on the re-do, since there's generally more ink on the page.

But I think there's already too much ink on the second version, so I'm going to stop there, and start laying down the watercolors.
Sure hope I don't end up having to do a third version of this page. A4 turns out to be a lot of open space to fill.

I haven't done the watercolor for the second yet, but I'm redoing it because the colors on the first version were flat and uninteresting. So while I've been re-drawing the ink, I've also been remixing the colors, trying to get better shades.

For one, in the first version the large forms along the left side are more to the left, leaving more open space in the middle. In the second it's more crowded. There's generally more separation, leaving more room for the colors.

I'm still pretty terrible at this, but at least I'm getting a bit better the more examples I have of how the various media work together.
I think the next step is I need to do the gray layer all in one go, so it's less blotchy. Still: progress.

You can see the same basic structure framing both: the empty box, the slightly off-center cardinal lines, the general dominance of purple with a contrasting highlight. But the one on the right is better balanced, with more depth and variety in the ink, better color mixing, etc.