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This is my roommate's cat expressing her opinion of my sketching.



The Drawesome Prompt this month was "Draw What You See" and I had to cheat and give up and take a photograph of my still life of junk and finish sketching it in my room. (After the walking-on-sketchbook and sitting-on-sketchbook, there was an active attempt to eat my pencil which is when I gave up.) I did do all the initial sketching and outline in person at least.



I was really excited about this prompt and had fantasies of doing a daily drawing this month. Drawing what's in front of you seems perfect for that sort of thing.

However, as usual, I put it off and put it off until suddenly it was the end of the month and I hadn't done a thing so I sketched this out quickly.

I did a pencil test up in the corner comparing a Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite Matt #14B with a simple Blick #6B and I don't see that the "14" is darker as such, but the matt pencil definitely is less shiny than the standard one. (I also started to do this with a blue colored pencil and quickly abandoned that idea due to the lack of contrast.)

This still feels a bit unfinished, but I'm giving up on it. Everything is all out of proportion and wrong and so I'm not motivated to make it pretty.

I really do need to spend a whole month practicing drawing from real life. It's so much harder than drawing from a photograph or imagination.

Date: 2023-07-01 02:05 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] senmut
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It looks good. Don't listen to the cat.

Date: 2023-07-01 03:21 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] adafrog
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lol Cats.
Looks nice.

Date: 2023-07-01 09:04 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] meridian_rose
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Graat work, despite kitty's best attempts to scupper you!

Date: 2023-07-01 09:29 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] mific
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Love it - the Rubik's cube is especially 3D, and bonus cat butt FTW!

Date: 2023-07-01 10:58 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] goss
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Nice work! Great job on the perspective for the cube especially. :D :D

Date: 2023-07-01 12:19 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] amberdreams
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Procrastinators Unite! Well, maybe tomorrow. 😂

Practice is key though, that's for sure. That and letting go of the need to be accurate in every detail. I feel your pain!

Date: 2023-07-03 10:49 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] mekare
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Good job and I laughed at your rommate's cat's sabotage attempts.

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