Random Ramblings

My regular readers know that I started taking beginner drawing classes last week. We had homework: to draw at least one picture a day. Despite being super-excited for the class, I only drew one day all of last week. It took me a lot of soul-searching to realize why I wasn't drawing every day. Not to put too blunt a point on it, I suck.

"Well, yes," I hear my faithful readers saying, "of course you suck. That's why you're taking beginner drawing classes. If you were awesome, you wouldn't need the classes."

How right you are, faithful readers. But that first time, when I sat down with my sketch pad to draw, I got horribly discouraged. It wasn't coming out the way I wanted it to! It was horrible!

I contemplated the situation. Clearly, everyone has to start somewhere. Even the best artists sucked once upon a time. Sure, they may have been six years old at the time. But that's the point: they got all their horrible drawings out of the way early. By the time they were in their late teens or 20s, they were well past the godawful stage and into the "wow, that's really amazing" stage.

So I thought to myself, "How many pictures will it take to get me out of the godawful stage?" I have no idea, but 1,000 seemed like a nice, round, happy number. If I draw two or three pictures every day, I'll have done it in a year. They don't have to be elaborate pictures. They just need to be pictures. And I fully expect that almost all of them will suck.

I won't post them all on my livejournal, but I hope to put all of them (and reference pictures, when I remember to take them) in my livejournal scrapbook. So follow along, why don't you? I'll post occasional pictures here, but not more than once or twice a week, I promise. So go on, delight in my inexperienced doodling, and visit 1,000 Horrible Drawings.