Time to send 'er in!

It's been said before... progress, not perfection!

I've shaded about as much as I can shade and I've drawn and redrawn as much as I can. Time to let it go.

These are all the pieces for this next-to-last assignment. I want to publicly thank everyone who has commented on my progress, especially those who encouraged the dream.

And I lift up a prayer to all those who don't believe in dreams, don't believe in the passions of the heart directed towards God above. May we always be what we are, and be it well!

Lord, if this is the talent you have given me and want me to use, then may that always be enough of an excuse for me to plow ahead and do it. Deo Gratias!

Human shapes

For this sketch, I focused on drawing the forms I saw in the body: cones, spheres, cubes. Then I shaded in and smoothed over the straight edges. This is fascinating study and I can see now why artists spend a lifetime studying the subtleties of the human form.

Human time!

Looks like the home stretch for the AIS course. The next several lessons cover drawing the human figure. What I've been waiting for! I started to sketch and didn't like what I was seeing (is this a nightmarish, recurring pattern or what??) but kept at it. The exercise was to just look at a picture they provide and do a rough sketch, going for shape and proportion and shading. So this too will be a new journey, a new adventure. Because I really look forward to the day when I can draw people and cartoons. It's a driving urge, not sure why. But for whatever its worth, here are the results of day #1.