EDM 268 - something I need

This is a portrait of my husband. I cannot imagine a life without him. <3

I have set a goal for myself to improve my skills at drawing portraits, which is something I find extremely difficult. Do you have any tips for me on how to get better at getting a good resemblance? I find that I can get different parts to look pretty good, but if I'm just half a millimeter off somewhere, then the whole thing looks wierd. (I think that's why I like doing flowers and stuff, it doesn't matter if it's a little bit off LOL).

An apple a day...

I copied this design from my friend's table cloth, which was in black and white, and then colored it with water color. It was a very quick sketch, nothing I put much thought into, but I really like the way it turned out. Funny how the quick and dirty things we do often turn out the best.

I am currently working up the nerve to start using my new sketch book (given to me as a birthday gift by my talented friend and fellow EDMer Anna, check out her blog here) . Why is it that by the end of a sketch book, I don't care what a sketch looks like, I just paint and draw for fun, for practice, to pass time, but the first few pages I get a silly idea that it has to look good and be perfect and get struck by performance anxiety. Anyone else have the same problem? How to get over it?

EDM 267 - something flexible

This challenge made me think of a classic drawing exercise: wrapping rubber bands around a glass, which is by the way a brilliant exercise when it comes to drawing what you see. So this is my drawing for something flexible.

(I really, really need to get Photoshop so I can correct my photographs, but this is the best I can do at the moment).

EDM 266 - something you cherish

EDM challenge 266 - draw something you cherish. My wedding rings, need I say more? But, wow it's difficult to paint metal!

The other two sketches are from a very sunny day on my friends' porch, I love that spring is finally here. I used the wrong pen for the sunglasses sketch, and used water soluble ink, but it made for a pretty interesting effect.

The full picture

In my previous post I showed you some of the elements of this page, well here's the full picture. Raena - here's your answer regarding the shadow on the duck!

Inspired (again) by Nina Johansson as she describes in this post, I have been trying to do weekly pages (or as in this particular one, bi-weekly). Just to keep the drawing and painting alive, and doing something every day, even when I haven't time to do anything more serious. Which is basically the whole point of EDM as I understand it too :)

Some small sketches

I've been trying to get in to the habit of sketching a little bit every day (even though I don't always succeed), so I've been doing some small sketches.



The kids' rubber duck.



This is actually a rose made from silk or something, but it looks pretty good and it was a lot of fun to sketch.



Another rose. I'm very much in to flowers right now, I think it's the long winter has me longing for spring and summer.

Sketch from skiing vacation

Due to all sorts of illnesses in the family, and a skiing vacation, I've not posted anything lately, but I've not been entirely inactive. Here's a sketch I made during our vacation