Where's my pencil!
I'm having a 'I wanna draw' kind of moment. I'm feeling the need to illustrate one of my fics. Not sure why... but it hit me last night... I really want a picture of one of the characters in one of my stories... and no-one else is gonna do it...
I can draw... I've taken assorted drawing classes over the years... but I'm not an artist. I've never been good at people and animals... most of my sketchbooks over the years... are filled with inanimate objects....
So... on the way home tonight... I stopped at a bookstore and checked out their books on "how to be an instant artist" - mainly the manga (Japanese cartoon /comic book characters) ones (I saw a cheap book on drawing manga characters this weekend and thought I would buy it tonight... but looking at it tonight... it wasn't a how too. More like a "Look at what I can draw, you can draw it too." without the whole 'technique' cluttering up the pages. In other words... useless...
I eventually found one that covers the basics - in a technical way - and even explains things... but it wasn't as cheap.
We'll see what happens...
Okay... skimmed the book to get the basic idea... dug up some real pencils, paper, and an eraser... 45 minutes later... resulting in very ugly people...
Obviously going to take more effort than that to draw anything useful. Which I expected. Just wanted to see where I was starting from. But that'll give me something to keep the brain going on the days when the verbiage doesn't wanna flow...
9:10:58 PM 
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