Following up and moving on

It's been a month since I first published my "100 cacti and succulent" post. A month... and nothing since. I did only 9 sketches of them and I got bored.

Just like with mushrooms. I didn't publish the mushrooms here!

And even though I did more mushrooms than caucuses, I got bored really fast too. So I'm moving on and start drawing toys. And since I have two little ones - I have tons of toys!!! At this point this is my natural surrounding. So I guess I will not have problems with things to sketch on a daily basis :)

Wish me luck!

100 cacti and succulents

Today I started my new "100 drawings" series, an this time it's a Cacti and Succulents. I really like them but for some reason no cactus or succulent ever lasted in my house. So I guess I'll have to admire them from far.

45 minutes for each session and this what was done for the first day.

Not much, I know. But just think of all those countless spines I had to place on each cactus! How many are there really?!!!

100 Lampshades

Yes!!!
I've finally finished!!!

Out of the 4 "100 drawings" sets I've done so far this one was the longest and the hardest to do and to finish. On my 80th sketch I was ready to give up, not being able too look at lampshades anymore. Because there weren't really 100 items to draw, they were way, way more.

Some I had to redraw several times to make it look a bit more like a reference.

Some had more than just one lamp.

And in the end I just didn't want to leave a blank page so I added some more items.

In all it was really good session because it made me think about proportions again, and perspective in drawing an shading and compositioning, all these important stuff that turn a simple drawing into a good one. Also it made me see a variety of interior lamps and  decide what kind of lighting I might want to buy next.

Also I marked in my "would like to" list that I should draw some old style rusty lamps, this time in color. Something like that one.