Srrign Break. Spring.

It's Spring Break this week and I haven't drawn anything since the last time I posted. I'm something of a lazy cow. I did some art homework on Monday, though. I don't remember if I uploaded anything. But yeah. My sister is getting her wisdom teeth removed tomorrow so she and her husband came down to visit, too. So here's my sister. There are a couple things I learned from this study. I need to find a way to keep proportion consistent. I don't know how I feel about holding my drawing utensil at arm's length away from my body and measuring. I just want to train my eye. I also should have drawn her shape through the arm of the couch, I feel like that might have helped keep her body normal. I also should have picked a model that wasn't so squirmy, because her mouth is all messed up ;)

When I got home Monday I found that my hardcover copy of A Redtail's Dream finally got here from Finland. For those unaware, creator Minna Sundberg created the comic as a personal project to develop her artistic abilities while she was going to school. Last semester I saw her crowdfunding campaign to bind the completed work into a hardcover book. I was impressed by her work and her discipline, so I backed the project. The reason I'm mentioning this in my post is that I think I have an idea of projects to work on to develop my skills. I have so many ideas in my head but really struggle to develop stories and characters outside of that. I'm considering turning some ideas of mine into short stories and then expanding them into short graphic stories, probably 20-30 pages? That seems really tough, though. But anyway, this book came this week and made me feel extremely guilty for being such a lazy cow and made me want to be better. I need to find time to push myself with personal projects.