"If it's not fun, tell me, why are you still playing?" (-Oagui)

Over New Year's break, I was browsing through old photos, and found some photo images I thought I'd put aside to use for practice sketching. Like everyone else, I feel like I've been so busy, and I haven't painted for a bit, so I am really out of practice,... and confidence, too.

My insecurities emerge when I attempt to draw, since I honestly can't draw, but I find that if I just pick up a paintbrush and sort of loosely sketch out shapes with that, and not with a pencil, I'll tend to be loose, because I feel like I'm just playing then, and I'm more relaxed.

It works for me--I'll never produce a masterpiece that way, but it gets me feeling like I'm having fun, and I'm more likely to keep trying if I do that.

And after all, fun is what it's all about in the first place, isn't it? (These were done in an old, small Arches HP block. It's always interesting to me to see the differences in HP paper vs CP.)

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." (-Dale Carnegie)