Hiking is one of my hobbies. I love art. I am not good at drawing, sculpting/pottery.
I am a homebody and an artist. I enjoy many types of art, including drawing, painting, sculpting, and pottery. I love animals and will be selling some of my artwork to raise money for the animal shelter. I find cats cute.
Since you're drawing for charity I also decided to try drawing again. How did it go? What did you decide to draw? Just a few portraits, nothing impressive. I'm still not great at it, but at least I'm trying to put more hours in practicing. Any advices? Have you heard of the 8 heads method for drawing figures? Hm, not sure, I think I haven't. Sounds interesting, what's that? It is the idea that generally people are about 8 times the length of their head. So you draw one oval for their head, and then you draw another 7 underneath the first one. That way you are pretty proportional to real people! Oh, that's pretty neat. Can it be applied to portraits though?  yes! so there is a different ratio if you are just drawing a face. You draw 3 ovals instead of 8. In the first oval (top) is the forehead. In the second oval the nose, and the bottom is the lips and chin.  Damn, haven't thought about that, thanks! I should start paying you for lessons haha. Been trying to learn myself by using free courses, but seems like it's too slow. No, way! teaching yourself is great. you just need a few tricks here and there to make things seem realistic. Self portraits are really hard, because we are incredibly critical of how we look. Maybe try drawing someone else's face first? I've tried it before, yeah. Even tried sketching some people while in a subway, it was fun! But still it seems like I lack the experience or the patience to improve my skills. Hahaha well there are always other mediums! Besides its supposed to be fun, and if you aren't having fun try something different for a little while. Have you thought about photography? Sounds like you have an eye for faces!