Learning to Sketch

I've always wanted to sketch so I thought...why not give it a shot?

Dear fellow writers,

In the past few years I have watched my sister sketch some beautiful pictures, including her gowns. I’ve always admired her talent but never thought I could do it. It always seemed to hard or took too long. I guess I never had the patience to sit down and really learn.

On Saturday, I had a shower thought: I can draw if I really want to. So I began. I asked my sister to teach me the basics: how to start, structure, and then to detail. It took a lot of control over my normally aggressive hands to have smoother, lighter strokes.

This was one of the reasons I disappeared from here for a few days…

My Sketches…

I’m going to share a few sketches with y’all and my progress. I’ll also share the reason I wanted to start sketching in the first place so stay ‘til the end! Here is the first one I drew:

Bo’’le o’ wa’er

Lizzy picked something from our room, her bottle, and showed me how to start it. Her sketch is on the right, mine is on the left. We started with marking the top and the bottom of the picture, and then a general skeleton, and then added the details. This one I think is my least favorite, probably because it’s my first one.

Fat Grumpy Cat

My second one, which I did right after the first is a cat. I wanted to ask Lizzy for another lesson but she seemed busy so I looked up “simple drawings to practice” and found this little guy. I was impressed I could draw it to be honest but I’m not a fan of his face. He’s cute I guess…

Slendrina?

I found this one after I drew the cat picture and thought, why don’t I give it a shot since her face isn’t showing? I wanted to practice drawing the human body but faces make it extremely difficult. Lizzy said the shading on this one was very good for a beginner so yay!

Eliza

I drew this one before work on Sunday. Once again I wanted to practice drawing humans but she’s a little disproportioned. I thought her hat was really cute. I also practiced drawing plaid. The face was a little hard to draw, to keep it cute. I named her Eliza after Lizzy…

A bonsai!!

This was my fifth sketch which I drew yesterday since I had a few hours. It took me about an hour and fifty minutes to do. I was extremely impressed with my work on this one. I love the trunk and the branches. I think it’s my favorite one and Lizzy loved it as well. Wanted to give our little bonsai seeds a little encouragement; they can see what they will become.

Swan Lake

My sixth drawing, done right after the bonsai. I asked Lizzy to give me a challenge and she presented me with a swan picture. I am most critical of this one because it didn’t turn out how I wanted it to. I think the feathers should have had more room but that’s the books fault for being so skinny! Also was not impressed with the shading on the neck. Lizzy likes it so I kept it but otherwise, I am very disappointed in you “Swan Lake”!!!

I AM GROOT!!

This one was done in the car on the way to our brother’s graduation ceremony. I wanted to start learning to draw Marvel characters and thought Groot would be easy. He was fun to draw, a little challenging but I love the result. He’s either my favorite or second favorite one I’ve done so far after the bonsai. My mom loved this one too.

Lizzy’s Masterpiece

Chace Crawford…the Deep…Nate Archibald

This is NOT mine but I did start it. I started structuring the picture, but then I had Lizzy the Ronin help me. She drew all the details, the eyes, nose, mouth, hair, all the shadows. I think this picture turned out perfectly. I wanted to draw a portrait since the facial features really stand out in these kinds of pictures which would give me practice drawing them. I chose him to draw, because his features really do stand out.

The Inspiration

Now for the big reason for all of this! I want to draw a picture with all the Marvel characters I love. Each of them will have their own page and it may be set up like the Doomsday one I saw on Instagram.

credit to the artist.

I thought this was amazing the first time I saw it. I think it was done on the computer though or at least some part of it. This is my inspiration. I want to put my favorites into a masterpiece though. Like what’s Marvel without Captain America, Black Widow, or Black Panther? I do want them to have more of a cartoon look than anything.

So that’s it; that’s my goal. I’ll share my progress as I go about it.

Thanks for reading, and lemme know what y’all think! Any tips for drawing?