I guess that’s why they call it ‘practice.’
But I figure that if I spend ten or twenty minutes a day practicing beginning drawing I’ll eventually get to the point where I can sketch a credible-looking face. If nothing else, this will please my mother and sister; they’re the graphic artists of the family, and they have always stubbornly insisted that I wasn’t nearly as bad as art as I believed that I was. Said belief is partially why I took up writing in the first place, so it’d be kind of mildly ironic if/when I turn out to be mistaken about that.
At any rate… never hurts to try a new thing.
Pro tip: eyes aren’t (usually?) parallelogram-shaped.
Yeah, I’m letting the graph paper impose itself on the drawing. 🙂
You’re lots better at it than I am. Basically, I can’t draw things that look like things, so instead I draw things like dungeon geomorphs.
Self knowledge of a valuable thing.
😉 I say this as someone who didn’t appreciate his complete lack of drawing talent until 5 semesters into a cartography degree.
(Also, timing is very important. Three years later, GIS became a thing. Sure, it existed in a rudimentary form while I was there, but could only run on a mainframe, and only grad students and professors had access.)
Any one got a copy of ” Drawing from the Left Side of the Brain ” up back in the attic . It was quite the rage 30 years ago . Even the !Science! made a certain amount of sense .