I know it isn't summer yet technically, but as far as the plants are concerned, it's summer. I've been up since 4:30 with an allergy attack. My eyes itching like crazy mostly. And stuffy nose. I got my order from Young Living yesterday so I have peppermint oil again, and it helps some. But not enough.
I didn't sleep very good anyway. I think because I was bummed when I went to bed. I spent the entire day working on that drawing, and when I was done, well, lets just say the Corgi looks like a dachsund or a chihuahua. My husband said to try a different picture, that I shouldn't take that one over to the man but I should start over. Then my friend told me to draw circles for several years like Michael Angelo had his students do, until I could draw a perfect circle. And suggested that I wasn't ready to do commission work yet, and it might take me several months of drawing constantly before I was good enough. So helpful. So encouraging. I felt like Chevy Chase in the movie "Animal House" when his wife told him to burn his book he had finally finished. The only difference is, we don't have a fireplace (or a beautiful large property like that either) so the picture just sits in my sketchbook instead.
This is the completed drawing...
The photo I drew it from is here: http://sheba.newbergmail.com/img11.jpg
So you can see that it does indeed look wrong. The head is too narrow (or else the body is too big?) and the ears are disproportionate (even though they DID look overly large in the photo also) to the rest of the face. So yeah, I gotta do it again. But the only kind words I got about my drawing were from my children who said it looked really nice, and they wished they could draw that well. My friend said "at least it looks like a dog". Sigh. If I had just slopped it together then I would think that the problem was not paying enough attention to detail. But I concentrated hard on it, I spent many hours on it, and I spent the most time on the face. Yet it's the face that looks bad. I should have just spent my day drawing the sketch for the animal pen I dreamed about instead. Would have been more satisfying anyway... And it would not have mattered if it weren't perfect, be cause no one but me would be interested in it anyway.
I don't know if I'm ready to work on a new drawing again today... I might wait until Monday. I feel very self conscious with my husband home criticizing me. Yes, I wanted his honest opinion, but it's rather discouraging when he can think of NOTHING nice to say. I guess I wasn't as prepared for his honest opinion as I thought I was. I wanted him to like it. Or at least say the eyes looked good, or SOMETHING. Yeah... Chevy Chase emotions here... definitely... ARGH!
Well, I don't seem to have anything positive or encouraging to say now either. All the joy is gone from me. Guess I should stop before the gloom spreads across the world over the electronic waves. It's not my intention to cause a world-wide depression over a bad drawing of a dog. Sorry... I will try to think of something more positive to say in my next post.
Blessings to you.
-Sparkling