My teacher is a drawing book that a bought at a local CNA in Pretoria.

I do not know how well I did with these two sketches.

MY first attempt is a sketch of a Banana.

So this is my real first attempt doing sketches.

So nice, you shows it here, Christo! I like it.

Do continue, my friend, it gives so much joy!

Jacomina thank you for the encouragment.

Who knows where this will go.

Practice and more practice.

Who would have ever thought i would attempt to draw.

God Bless.

I hope that it wil go like: "once started, never stopped", Christo!

It's the inspiration that will do it, and that's great.

God bless.

Thank you Jacomina.

God Bless.

This is a mighty fine beginning, Christo. It will be really interesting to follow your improvement.

Go for it Christo! A great start, your confidence will build if you do a bit everyday without fail.

(Remember that the spaces between things are are as important in a drawing as the things themselves: for example in a face the size of the space between the eyes matters just as much as the size of the eyes.)

Andrea

Quote - Go for it Christo! A great start, your confidence will build if you do a bit everyday without fail.

(Remember that the spaces between things are are as important in a drawing as the things themselves: for example in a face the size of the space between the eyes matters just as much as the size of the eyes.)

Andrea

Thank you Andrea.

God Bless.

Now you guys have me all excited to also attempt it! Let me just find my feet and then I'll try!

Great start Christo!

Thank you Carin.

Just say when you want to start.

I can send you many links of sites teaching one to draw.

God Bless.

These are great, Christo! I look forward to seeing more!

Quote - These are great, Christo! I look forward to seeing more!

Thank you.

I know i can and will improve with practice and time at hand here at work.

God Bless.

So here is Two more.

The first Three different type og drinking glasses.

PLease have a look and enjoy this sketches as well all Renderosity members.

So I am setting myself a target.

Lets see if my drawings have improved a month from now.

OH Yes, you are really doing great Christo. Thank you for sharing your next work. :-) What a great idea, that you have decided to learn to draw. I believe you will improve every day, if you just work on it every day.

The two years I was drawing archeologic finds for a local museum, I could easily see the big difference from the beginning of the two years and to the end of them.  Such fun.  Have a great time. Believe me, it will be more and more fun, the more you learn.

Helle

Thank you.

I will try to practice every day.

May the Lord spare me and help me develop another talent.

God Bless.

Very nice work!  I've done more drawing from images than from life and two things that have helped me sometimes is drawing with the image and sketch pad upside down or practicing by drawing small sections.  In both cases my eye is focused more on the lines and shapes and less on my preconceived idea of what the object looks like.  Keep on with it.  You are doing great!

AW! Lucinda. I have never tried that. Sounds like a great idea :-) Thanks for the tip :D
I am gonna try that out soon.

You are very welcome, Helle.  I just saw your image of Mark's wave in the texture challenge and followed the link to your flicker page.  Fantastic work!  I love that photo of Mark's and your paintings too.  You captured his beautifully translucent light. 

Thanks alot, Lucinda :-) My first attempts in painting waves :)

I remember one my art teacher asked us to do once - and that was to hang a shirt on the back of a chair and sketch it.  The way the folds of the shirt work with the light was a very useful study, and getting the precision of a chair's legs / perspective is also a useful challenge.  Give it a go and see how you do.  

Also - take aaaages over sketching - be a perfectionist.  I have a sketch (digital) of Scarlet Johanson in my back-catalogue on RR and i can remember that it took at least 8 hours of (essentially) trial and error:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1756079&user_id=409068&page=15&member&np

Then it gives you a "i can do that" attitude and then nothing is impossible...

Quote - I remember one my art teacher asked us to do once - and that was to hang a shirt on the back of a chair and sketch it.  The way the folds of the shirt work with the light was a very useful study, and getting the precision of a chair's legs / perspective is also a useful challenge.  Give it a go and see how you do.  

Also - take aaaages over sketching - be a perfectionist.  I have a sketch (digital) of Scarlet Johanson in my back-catalogue on RR and i can remember that it took at least 8 hours of (essentially) trial and error:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1756079&user_id=409068&page=15&member&np

Then it gives you a "i can do that" attitude and then nothing is impossible...

Rich

Thank you for the encouragment.

The sketch that you did on the link that you gave is amazing.

Much more practicing for me to do to improve.

God Bless.

Great start and thanks for sharing your drawing journy.

Here is a book I found really helpful and friends who have used it have said the same.  Perhaps your library might have it.

So You Thought You Couldn't Draw: For People Who Can't Even Draw a Straight Line

http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Thought-Couldnt-Draw/dp/1887823387/

Quote - Great start and thanks for sharing your drawing journy.

 

Here is a book I found really helpful and friends who have used it have said the same.  Perhaps your library might have it.

So You Thought You Couldn't Draw: For People Who Can't Even Draw a Straight Line

http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Thought-Couldnt-Draw/dp/1887823387/

Thank you for the encouragement.

I will see if the book is available in our local libraries.

God Bless.

I think you have a very good eye for composition.  Not just to blow smoke up your skirt and artificially make you feel good about yourself, I truly feel you have talent.  I took the idea around the block myself.........but my dog came out looking like a rabbit, lol.