4. Attempting a Face

-Skyflyr

A new laptop and a few other projects later, and I finally have another sketch ready! My last laptop died right as I was finishing this up. Annoying, but now with my new computer I have a touch screen, which is really fun in Gimp.

Speaking of Gimp, this picture made me learn a lot more about it! The sketch was extremely faded, especially the background. When I drew it I was nervous about drawing buildings so I did them very lightly, and they are barely visible now. But computer technology is pretty amazing, and I was able to recover a lot of it, although it looks a bit fuzzy still. 

In terms of skill development, in this sketch I finally attempted a face! I got most the features down but "eyes are the windows of the soul" and all that, so they were the most intimidating. I got about as far as the outline of one eye before I chickened out... One step at a time, right? Some face is better than none at all.

On that note, I really like two (related) concepts taught by "The Fly Lady" Marla Cilley. She always talks about the importance of taking baby steps and not only doing things if you can do them perfectly. In her book Sink Reflections she says "Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family!". I have applied that way of thinking to a lot of things besides housework and it helps overcome the barriers I set up for myself. For example, I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time but I never did because I wanted it to be "perfect" and I didn't know what that would be. But then I realized any blog would be better than none at all, so I am just going for it. Blogging done incorrectly still blesses me. Are there things that you want to do but are worried you won't do them perfectly?