Wax Museum

Forgive me as I'm going to wax nostalgic for a moment.  I recently arrived at the end of my sketchbook and decided to commemorate the occasion.  (There are a couple other pictures at the end of the post of one wants to skip over my rambling.)

(Note:  I am not left handed, I was just drawing in front of the mirror (as usual) so it just looks like I'm left handed.  Not that there's anything wrong with being left handed and, in fact, trying to draw left handed might make for an interesting drawing exercise someday.  Anyway...)

Normally I wouldn't do anything special just for reaching the end of a sketchbook, but I thought that this one was something of a special case.  As near as I can tell, I bought the sketchbook sometime in 2008, which means that it's taken around four years to fill it up.  The thing is, approximately two-thirds of the sketchbook has been filled since my resolution on Feb 19, 2012 to start drawing regularly (about two and a half months).  And about half of what came before that was drawn since starting my Word Smith project in late winter/early spring 2011.  I seem to have done very little drawing from 2008-2010 (well, not in my sketchbook, anyway, I still doodled in various notebooks from time to time).  There were only three drawings from 2010.  And much of the 2008-2010 stuff is in an unfinished state.

So for some reason, I basically stopped drawing much, outside of the occasional doodle.  I'm not really sure why.  I drew at least semi-regularly in various sketchbooks during my undergrad and masters years, but then, for reasons lost to the mists of time, essentially stopped.  I suppose work (and other distractions) may have had something to do with it - my first job after graduating was rather soul crushing, after all - though it's also at least partly due to me just not setting aside the time.

Anywho, I'm really glad I've decided to set aside the time to start drawing again.  It's one of those things that I don't think I realized that I missed until I started getting back into it with my comic projects last year.  It's also something that I've been finding to be both enjoyable and rewarding.  And all this is why I decided to do a special commemorative sketchbook entry - it represents a revival, of sorts, of a hobby that I let fall by the wayside.  It also represents the start of a long journey to improve my skills that I've embarked upon and I'm eager to see where it leads.

Well, this is getting all sorts of long winded, so lets move on.  I decided to do another colour drawing to start of my new sketchbook (pencil crayons again) and do something of a landscape, which is also something I don`t do a whole lot of.

It is Kyoujo looking out over her home town of Numor Port.  The idea for the picture was based on an older, simpler drawing I did for the Kyoujo RPG (one of my eternally unfinished projects) which shows a younger version of Kyoujo sitting and reading under a tree, shown below.

And that is the end of this rather long post.  The next one probably won`t be quite so wordy.

Freak Out,
-TFitC