keep a sketchbook

I’m doing pretty well at this. Most of the time my sketches are just ‘practice’ so that I get better at drawing, but yesterday I did a pretty nice one of an Amarillys flower that my sistergave us for Christmas, and it turned out pretty well, so I might try to colour it with my watercolours.

I drew today. I was sitting waiting for the computer network to come back up, so I drew a sketch of the monitor and keyboard I was sitting in front of.

So I drew a second sketch in my practice book; it’s yet another rendition of a coffee cup that I use often as a ‘warm up’ drawing exercise. I never feel I do a very good job of it, so it will be interesting to see after a bunch of practice if I’m getting any better at this particular coffee cup.

I also told my band about my drawing practice at out band supper last night, and asked them to check up on my and kick my butt if I didn’t keep up my drawing practice.

This week in my drawing class, my instructor told us that just 15 minutes of practice a day would improve our drawing tremendously. Then someone else posted about a sketchbook they had bought, and it reminded me that I had a little one I bought a while back.

So… today I opened it to the first page and did a little practice sketch. I’m going to try to do one every day.