Wow, has it already been 4 weeks? Only 48 weeks left to go? One twelfth into my journey of spending a year learning to draw (read the background here). This week I did a lot of my drawing for pleasure on my new iPad, trying to get used to Procreate and using the Apple pencil. …
Herewith I regale you with a summary of my third week of my spend a year learning to draw by practicing every day project. (Read the background here). It’s interesting to me to see how my ideas about what I want to be able to do at the end of the year are changing. As …
So how did things go in my second week of my year-long project of learning to draw? (Read the background here). It felt like a good week. It seems like it’s getting easier to draw straight lines and smooth curves, as long as I can maintain focus and not let my mind wander. I completed …
I’m spending 1 year learning to draw (read the background here). Here are the results of my first week of practice since making this decision. There are also notes about what I’m learning every day. Reflecting on the learning process is, after all, is supposed to be important for one’s progress. One of the mind-fuckiest …
You know how when your birthday is coming up, you tend to look back on how you spent the past year? It’s a natural thing to do. The goal is to use what you’ve learned from the previous year to (ideally) make the next year better. The older I get, the more important this is. …
Drawing is one of those things I always wished that I could do well, but thought I just didn’t have the talent. So I never really worked on it. I just drew things for fun when the mood would strike. Because I didn’t think I had the talent to get really good, it never felt …
