Drawing class …

… started yesterday, and while this isn’t the finished piece, I thought keeping track of its creation would be interesting.  The piece of information I gleaned from the instructor is that a drawing starts out with light strokes and the image builds with each stroke, darkening where we are confident of what we want in the finished picture.  I’ll admit I slipped into a “self-discovery” mindset and compared drawing a picture to life … we start out as light pencil strokes, and we build ourselves over the years, erasing what we don’t like, darkening the strokes of what we do like … however, I am unsure if we really get the opportunity to admire our “finished” self because death is sneaky.  But then as the woman in my drawing started to reveal herself, I realized the enjoyment is in the revealing, the shading, the tweaking … the creation.  We’re not allowed to use erasers in class because there are “no mistakes”.  I desperately want to erase her feet hahahaha and that’s where I stopped drawing, and will return to her next week … maybe her feet won’t look so … uhhmmmm idk … I just don’t like her feet LOL