Weekend and Today's Sketches (Cats, Dogs, and people)

 I didn't feel good yesterday and slept most of the day, so I didn't do a sketch yesterday, but I made up for it today. I did three! I switched it up a bit and sketched animals too. None of them are perfect, but I had a blast trying!

I paused the TV and sketched this labrador with a mechanical pencil. I surprised myself! Paused TV is the next best thing to sketching from life, if you have a large TV, I think.

I used a Frixion erasable pen to attempt a sketch of this cat on Facebook. I got his face and ears too long and thin and he's kind of wonky looking, but he taught me some things.

This one is from memory after I sketched the one above it, using a mechanical pencil and a Stablio pencil.

Some faces from imagination using mechanical and Stablio pencils.

This girl on the left is imagined and the one on the right is from a photo of my cousin T. Not much of a likeness, but I'm proud of the expression I got. Mechanical and Stablio pencils.

Close up of the sketch above.

A sketch using an old photo of my great-great grandma at an old time dinner on the ground and singing in the fifties. Not an exact likeness, but I'm proud of how close I got to her essence. She lived in Oklahoma and only came in once a year for decoration, so I only got to see her a few times when I was little. The photo had part of her children children surrounding her, including my grandpa.

I've never liked drawing, but the more I sketch, the more I'm starting to enjoy it. I tend to make things more complicated than they have to be, so maybe if I can just get myself to relax and draw without thinking about it, I just may learn to love it!

Creativity is fun, whether you are a pro or not!