Day 11

 I am floored by how quickly and ACCURATELY I was able to block in the shapes on this sketch simply starting from the top of the man's head, going down his body, then starting the woman from the feet and working my way back up to her head.

If I'd tried something like this years ago, there would be HUGE distortions and it would be basically impossible for me to get the two sides of the image to meet up without repeatedly erasing everything and starting over, but on this one I did virtually no erasing and everything lined up almost perfectly at the end.

Somehow my brain and hand have gotten lined up to the point where I can actually reproduce what I'm looking at fairly quickly.

Day 9

 Still life of purple coneflowers in colored pencils.

Day 7 and 8

It took me more than one day to finish a vector portrait for Melissah, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Day 5

 For today, we have a baby hippopotamus.  The values were a struggle, the original was taken in very bright light so it was completely washed out.

Day 4

 I'm actually pretty pleased with this one.  I made myself sketch the complete shape before I started in, and the proportions look pretty decent overall, without major, obvious distortions. I also made some use of values, and I think it makes it a lot more lively, particularly around the eye.

The fur was super-hard to do, because the chipmunk has light and dark hairs together that form its pattern, and it was hard to figure out what overall value to use there without making it look like it was shaved.

Day 3

I was pretty busy today and drawing a blank on what to draw, so you get Random Dragon Sketch.

Day 2

 An attempt at a color version of yesterday's pencil sketch.  I'm not completely pleased with the result.  I need more practice with colored pencils and I'm way too dependent on being able to erase errors.  It's very hard for me to draw without an initial outline in graphite pencil, but I enjoy the practice of drawing free-hand even if I mess up the proportions.

Day 1

 So, a friend of mine on Facebook is doing this project called "100 days of drawing" where you do a drawing every day for a hundred days (obscure, I know) and I volunteered to draw along.

I'm super-rusty, so here's a sketch of my character Melissah for today. Mostly I was working on getting the proportions and the stance together, so the values are super-meh.  It actually took me almost an hour just to find some pencils I could draw with!