Couch Taters - pencil sketch
My daughter and her boyfriend, as they watched TV on a lazy summer afternoon.
Last August, I enrolled in a basic drawing class, taught by Suzanne McDermott in her studio, to see if I could draw again. It had been years since I sat down to do a sketch of 'anything.' I was so used to working on a computer that I felt paralyzed to put the point of a pencil on a pad of paper. If I needed to do a quick layout of something, I'd use Illustrator or Photoshop, because most of the time I was just laying out an ad that required no real drawing skills. Suzanne's class changed that for me. It was great! Basic exercises with simple subjects she set up for us to draw, then we moved on to sketching other artists' works that she chose for us. It was the jolt I needed to feel confident to sketch again. I really need to do more of this, to help train my eye and hand.
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