Too late to back out now!

Just bought a course of lessons from a SCBWI member that'll teach me how to stop drawing stick men and hopefully well enough to give an idea of what I want my characters to look like in picture books!

I'll never be an artist, I already know that, but I want to be able to draw for my own benefit more than anything!

Hope for terrible drawers

Just uploaded my first doodle for about a decade and a half to SCBWIs Twitter channel thing... it's a hideous doodle even if I do say so myself!  lol

Don't laugh too hard!

I've just put yesterday's drawings through the scanner... don't laugh too hard at them!

Shading

I've just spent the last hour or so slowly working through one of the sketching books I got from Amazon and drawn loads of pictures using the prompts in it.

One thing I'm proud of is that, for the first time in my life, I've worked out how to do shading with a pencil and I'm addicted to it now!  lol

I'll never be an artist but it's OK to draw messy pictures sometimes and it's OK to not draw realistic pictures too.

I still want to draw my twins, but I'm going to slowly work up to it instead of jumping in over my head to start with... with time, patience and lots of practice I'll get there eventually.  I enjoyed working on the book that I've got and it's definitely the start of a new hobby, I've just got to take things a lot slower and not expect miracles without practicing for months or even years... I'll get there eventually, I've just got to be more patient!

Drawings by me...

I've never been an artist and prolly never will be 'cos the message from my head to my hand gets muddled up somewhere but I would love to have just one sketch of my twins that I've done myself.

My most prized possession is a sketch a friend did for me over a decade ago and means the world to me.  The sketch is of my twins at 5 years old.  They would be 17 now so they would have changed a lot by now and want to pour my heart into a sketch  so that I've got something to remember them as older teens as well as children.

So, I'm going to post my progress as it happens, hopefully I'll upload a drawing every week in my blog.  Gentle encouragement would be very appreciated!  If you're nasty to me you obviously lead a very disappointing life and I feel sorry for you!

So, this is what I draw like now...

... this is the base I'm starting from... wish me luck and artistic inspiration!