Draw to a Close

I ended up skipping day 4 of drawing because I just wasn't feeling that into it and Agnes was home. On day 5 I felt a little bit inspired to try to get back on the horse, even if the misfit munchkin was still in the residence.

Drawing with a small child around is MUCH different than attempting to hone my drawings by myself. I am assaulted with a barrage a of questions about what I am doing and why I am doing it. Then Agnes takes it upon herself to, "Improve" my drawings. She tells me I am not drawing my lines dark enough, so she proceeds to wrestle the pencil away from me and trace everything I have drawn in a a heavy charcoal outline. I conclude that this is not going to work out for me and let her go to town, preserving a few of my better drawings, but letting her "color" the bird and the doodles I have made today.

At the end of 5 days drawing I am MUCH farther as an artist in this medium than I was when I started. More than the progress I have made in actual technique, I have a completely different view of the exercise than I did going into this week. I don't know what drawing will become my new favored hobby, but I can say that I will work on completing the exercises in the book. It may take me a while, but I am going to give it a shot.

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