Well, here is my sketchbook thread. I use sketchbook as a term loosely as most of what comes out of my sketching supplies yet only vaguely resembles sketching. Still, I am here because I endeavor to improve. And, what I have discovered (well, other than that the mere art of learning to draw is a very humbling and pride shattering undertaking) is that when learning it is essential to have eyes who are not your own, share the very things you need to be able to see, that you yet cannot.
It is easy enough to look at something and say, Ok, that is very wrong. But without knowing why it is wrong, or how to correct it, I run the risk of continuing down that road of wrongness. 
I am perhaps too old to start to draw (39 heading to 40 soon) and before the past week it has been literally 26 years since I threw down my pencil in a fit at age 15ish (parent told me there was no future for me in art and wouldn’t support me so I walked away from art for a very long time)
Well, long story cut as short as possible - I am back in school, for animation with no trained drawing skills. I have eyes, and hands, and a willingness to learn, so this will document that. Maybe I won’t end up animation in the end that but I do want to be able to draw. Period. Regardless of school.
I am creating this thread for guidance and constructive criticism but also to document my eventual progress, however slow or fast, because I know that in any skill you can have some dark days where you can’t see where you are, and seeing where you began can help bridge those moments into better ones. The more exposed my attempts, the more I will want to improve. Art shock therapy? 
Anyway, too long perhaps, but I almost felt like I had to start with an apology for what I am about to show soon enough. 
I do have faith in my ability to learn. I am trying to see art as something I can learn and develop as opposed to something that simply must come naturally and easily or not at all. I hope that is sane enough :arteest:
First day sketching after 25ish years…different times of day, different styles in mind…
I consider all of these “fast” for me, less than 20 minutes on each, some being 5 minutes. Long for some people for what I have read but I tend to get stuck in the details and lose track of the big picture ( I am working on that with 60 second sketches now)
