Well, still not awesome – nose to big and lips to small – I think they are overall getting better. I’ll keep trying.

The drawing people trials begin again. You know, I never tried to draw anyone until my sophmore year in high school… in comparison I’ve been drawing plants since I was a little kiddo and animals since I was 8 or so. I have a few years of catch up work on portraits, people, and face [...]

Drawing knitting is freaking hard. It’s like a big smooshy organic, geometric structure with so much texture you just get lost in it. Sure I could render every single stitch, but how do you get the idea across that it’s knit fabric without doing that? How do you do a 10 minute study of knitting [...]

I just got my order from JetPens.com in the mail yesterday. I’m in mechanical + fancy pens heaven right now.
My camera battery is charging right now, when it’s ready to go, I’ll snap a few pictures of the whole lot and show them off.

Hey, today is day 20 with no misses. I’m on the cusp of three weeks. I think I can keep this up no problem.
I cleaned up my home studio area this morning and started work on Beef it’s what’s for dinner (food chain series) piece again. I love that steer and it’s about time I [...]

I’ve decided to go back to the beginning. I’m copying studies of human anatomy from the book “Human Anatomy for Artists”. It’s actually kind of fun because they have all the skeleton structures, musculatures, and flesh of just about every part of the body. From a full body view to close ups. Everything is labeled and [...]

We had our first Ames C.art Drawing meet up tonight. It was so much fun! I drew a little knit pin cushion with a B4 pencil, water color pencils, and a white pen. I really enjoyed the evening drawing away and that spread of drawing supplies was so awesome. I wish I could have them [...]