My story “The Girl with Flowers for Hair” will be emailed to Daily Science Fiction subscribers tomorrow. Everyone else can read it on the web next Tuesday.
The story mentions drawing and improving at it. I’ve wanted to draw for a long time, but I didn’t get around to trying until recently. You know the joke about drawing instructions? Step 1, Draw an oval. Step 2, Add a few lines. Step 3, Paint the Mona Lisa. That’s what it always seemed like.
Last year I bought a couple drawing books and this year I started looking at them (mostly Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner). It explains things in a way my art-deficient brain can understand.
Friday I drew this sunflower, from Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner.
It’s the first thing I drew with actual drawing pencils instead of a single mechanical pencil. Having a choice of pencils made shading it a million times easier.
I still have a lot to learn, but it’s starting to feel like I could eventually do this well enough to entertain myself.
Just read your story on DSF … nicely done. Love the flower too.
Thanks. I’m glad you liked the story.
Will read the story as soon as I can. But um…that’s an awesome drawing of a flower. As someone that can’t draw to save his life (one of the many reasons I was attracted to photography instead) I am really impressed that you were able to do this starting from nothing!!
Thanks, Tim. I’m just following instructions for now. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m happy that it now seems learnable.
Cool drawing, glad you’re learning to express yet one more of your creative gifts!
Thanks, Dawn.