Car trips, Easter weekend, lots of stuff happening without a moment to breathe. A couple of sub-par drawings came out from it, which is unfortunate…

Lessons learned:
1. Don’t try to draw while in a moving car.
2. Don’t draw with a ridiculously tiny pencil.
3. Don’t attempt a combination of the two. You’re going to have a bad time.

Happy foods! Baby animal! People! Blue pencil!

What is this… Week 4/Round 4? I’m starting to re-find (that’s right; finding again) my “style” of drawing. Whatever that is. Quasi-angular. Simplistic. Anime-ish?

It also occurred to me that I forgot to put whiskers on the cat. I meant to. Sorry, Angular Cat Idol.

Double post! Playing catch-up with posting!

Otherwise, so far, so good with keeping up with this project. Physically.

I really should invest in a scanner. Or at least a portable one.

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 Try #2 with the whole Daily Draw project I want to do. I’m a little disappointed that at the first go-round, I failed. Miserably. After a month of doing it, I stopped due to not coming up with ideas, getting frustrated at my skills, and generally things getting in the way. For a while, I really thought about the factors that contributed to my failure. Why wasn’t I getting into it? Why am I frustrated?

The factors were narrowed down to:
1. I didn’t place the correct parameters. I work well when certain boundaries are set.
2. The perfectionist side of me got in the way. If something was off, I got frustrated.
3. Concentrated too hard on a completely finished product instead of sketching.

So, how to fix these issues… Well, I have several packs of blank note cards (3×5), just refound my ColErase pencils, somewhere between 10-30 min., a podcast (so it’s like I’m sitting in a class, where I apparently do my best sketching), and away we go! I found that if I limit my drawing surface (and use it to my advantage) and when the inspiration strikes, draw whatever it is, I’m more compelled to do it.

So far, so good, right? RIGHT?! Man, I really hope this works…

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