I can draw!

I’m no da Vinci, but I’m sitting here with a couple of semi-respectable drawings.

It’s all thanks to this website I found: Drawspace.com

Drawspace offers over 200 free lessons in how to draw, and they’re pretty good.  I’ve been working my way through the beginner level, and I’ve learned some stuff.  I’ve managed some pretty good anime drawings, assorted simple cartoons, a decent line drawing of a fish and an awesome hand.

I’m not so good with lips.  They all look like an alien spaceship or something you’d expect to come out of the Little Shop of Horrors, but I think I’ll improve.

Eyes are also a hit or miss proposition just now.  Conceivably, I’d do better with some actual drawing materials rather than a #2 pencil and the back side of laser printer paper.  I’m going to look into that now that I am not the artistic failure all previous art classes led me to believe.

I’m not saying I’ll ever be da Vinci, but I’m having fun.  Someday, I might be able to leave the sample drawings behind, and sketch something recognizable out of my own little head.  Wouldn’t that be something?

It just goes to show that taking the time to work at a thing and paying attention to how it’s done is half the battle.  Because if I can draw, I figure just about anybody can.

You should check out Drawspace.com.  But be warned!  Drawing practice is as much a time sink as Facebook—and that’s saying something.

So far, I’ve been very disciplined.  I’ve managed to keep up with my workouts and my yard work and some other commitments I’ve made.  But the housework is starting to slip down the scale.  And the writing has tended toward the bottom of the pile for the last few months (years?) anyway.

That will have to stop.

But in the meantime, I think one creative endeavor usually feeds another—and, besides, I can draw!

Who knew?!