Daily Drawing February 23 to 29th

Here's the final set of drawings for the February drawing challenge at Creative Bug.

I think I might sign up again for March. I think my drawing has definitely improved from the stick-figures and scribbles I usually do.

Daily Drawing February 16 to 22

I'm still keeping up with the drawing challenge at Creative Bug.

We have company right now so it's really tricky to find the time. 

These pages are a mix of intentional, blind contour and contour drawings.

Daily Drawing ChallengePart Three: Drawings 21-31

I did all 31 days of drawing in January!

Some were good, some not so good, some downright embarrassing but the habit was WONDERFUL and the practice really pushed my skills forward. So, hooray!

Now I'm going through my book and am art journaling over the pages I am not fond of. It's a terrific way to already have personal marks and writing to my art journal pages from the very base layer. 

I think doing this challenge in my mixed-media journal is turning out to be a stroke of genius ;-)

(Don't mind this one, I was sick in bed with the stomach flu. Not exactly conducive to steady hands, creativity or giving a damn.)

Daily Drawing ChallengePart Two: Drawings 11-20

Here's the next set of drawings from the month of January.

Are you doing any challenges this month? Link me up, I'd love to hear about them.

Daily Drawing Challenge: 31 Things to Draw at Creative Bug

My dear friend, Lori turned me on to Creative Bug and I can't say I've got a bigger kick out of a site in a long, long time.

I jumped right in on Lisa Condon's Daily Drawing Challenge: 31 Things to Draw and have been having quite a blast trying this whole drawing thing out. 

See, I don't draw. I collage. I paint. I don't do the thing with the pen on the white paper and the straight lines that when put together actually look like something we can all recognize. 

But they don't call it a challenge for nothing, right?

Here are my first ten. As you can see, there are varying amounts of success and I broke down and used my beloved Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 48 Set on more than a few of them.

May I say, just going straight at it with pen is terrifying. I am very attached to using my pencil and eraser until it's 'just so' and then going OVER it with pen. This balls-out, just go for it attitude of line-drawers is really pretty bold. Hats off to you folks.