Progress I hope...

Busy week. Getting ready for a garage sale this weekend with neighbors. This house we live in once belonged to Mom, and most of her stuff is still here so she & I are going through it deciding what she'll keep or sell. Loads of fun, pulling crap down from the attic and out of closets. And naturally, from rifling through stuff you always come across things Moms don't ever throw away, like drawings you did when you were 5 years old:

She even went as far as to LAMINATE this one.

People always ask me how I learned to draw, and I always tell them "years of practice!" I should show this as proof it doesn't happen overnight. Who the hell was the contractor on this house? And what's up with the jaw on this horse?? Is he chewin tobacco??

Hopefully it means I've gotten a little better in 30 years... here's a portrait I finished this week, my neighbor commissioned me to do this drawing of her sister & horse (sorry for blurriness & lousy yellowish color from camera phone, girl and horse don't really have jaundice):

This one is Prismacolor colored pencils, approx 15"x 20" or so.

This semester I'm taking a Photography class (a requirement for the graphics degree anyways)... thank goodness, I need to learn to use a real camera so I can show better photos of my work here on the web. These cellphone photos are just horrible, bad color and don't show detail. Oh well.