Yes you are right Kim...

It has been to long since my last update. The last couple of weeks a have tried to sketch at least 5 minutes every day. Although I have only sketched 5 minutes 4 days a week. Which is still pretty good compared to before.

My awesome friend gave me a awesome tip to a site where you can train your sketching abilities: http://www.posemaniacs.com/.

Among other things they give tips on how to draw fast and have pictures of humans i different poses. So this is what I have been training with the last couple of weeks. In the method I have been using they show a pose for 30 seconds and then they switch to another pose so you have to be quick. I am still pretty slow so I always skip the hands and feet. And for some reason it is always easier for me to draw women than men. It could be because I get distracted by all the manly muscles on the model. But hey, I am a straight young woman after all so things like this are out of my control.

I have now been practising for 4 weeks and I think I see a tiny, tiny improvement so far. Anyway here are some random pictures from my sketchbook from the last weeks. I hope that the next time I update the sketches will be better.

PS. Who is the lord of power? ANDNING! During one of my Taido lessons we learned that breathing in only through the left nostril makes you use the right half of the brain more and the other way around. And since you mostly use the right part of your brain while drawing I tried this trick and it actually made me sketch better. Sadly I can't remember which pictures a draw before and after this trick anymore so I can't show you.

Loads of pictures

I finally have a camera so I can photograph my pictures and put them up here. I must admit thought that I have been quite lazy with my sketching lately. But I'm loaded with a new sketchpad and some new motivation so just you wait. Here is what I got since last time.

The home of the boy that nobody likes. At least it used to be.

I'm sorry guys but he has already been adopted, so you

will have to find someone else to do your dishes.

Random face blowing away in the wind.

A couple of weeks before Joakim and I broke up I draw this. Sometimes your heart tells you before your head know it. Isn't it strange?

It is when I was at the bottom in my dark pit that I realized how blessed I am. To be surrounded with people who keeps giving when I am empty and have nothing to give in return. This is for my friends and family. Thank you for loving me and keeping my fire still burning when I'm dying.

After death comes rebirth, right? At least for the phoenix bird. I wanted to draw a symbol for rebirth but the wings got too heavy for the poor bird. Well the first try is often a struggle.

A couple of days later I draw this one. I felt it did rebirth more justice. Rebirth with a new future at hand. Can you feel it?

Bad Annika and good Annika

Yes that's right, bad of me not posting a picture until now, but good of me to not give up on this blog. As I have been really bad at drawing lately (there is just to much going on in my life right now) I will post this old picture that I draw my first week in Gibraltar. Enjoy!

Hands Only and The Girl In The Box Of Glass

So now I finally have internet again. I feels bad about telling you that I'm going to update the blog every week but then nothing happens in about a month. But as I haven't had any Internet for a while I hope you understand. Anyway here we go.

Girl in the box of glass.

I draw this one day when I felt kind of downbeat. I'll let the picture do the talking. Take a guess about how I felt. The hands are really bad, I know. It's really hard to draw hands. That's why I decided to practice drawing hands and hands only.

Hands, the first try.

Hands, second try.

Hands, third try.

I like this one by the way. It makes me kind of proud to have been able to do something like this. What shape do you think the hands making?

Hands ,fourth try.

Seems I went backwards on this one and got the proportions all wrong.

Well that's it about hands. See you next week with a new picture.

First time alone...

Yes, is true. This is the first time that I have my own blogg. My other blogg i share with a couple of friends http://www.tjamorsk.blogspot.com/. There you can read about different things and I'm sure something there will be in your liking.

This blogg I will dedicate to my wish to be good at drawing. I don't know if anybody will ever read it but it's more for my own sake. To get me more motivated. I've always looked at pencil drawings of really talented people and wished I could be that good. But it doesn't happen over a night (at least that's what they all say) so I better start practicing.

I will try to post a new picture here at least once every week for you to hate or love or just comment on. I love comments so please do :). But remember I got the power to remove them if they are just mean :D. Just to have something to start you and myself up with I will post a picture that I draw a couple of years ago.

It can only become better from here.