Pet Drawing #33

I've been pretty busy for the past few week. One week, I was working on a commission piece for my work and then the next week, I prepared a sermon for my church last Sunday. The sermon included an object lesson where I printed out a linocut design. Fun!

I'm still going to be rather busy. On top of looking for extra work, I have decided to work on updating my illustration portfolio. So I probably won't put out as many pet drawings as when I first started. But that's really not the point. I look forward to my pet drawings as creating art for my own personal enjoyment.

My cat Mr. Frodo was drawn from memory with a 0.9mm mechanical pencil. This drawing is a study for my portfolio.

Gordy #4/100

Today I drew our other dog. He is very clingy and needy. He has some health problems too and he isn't very old. My son is very attached to him as you can see.

Fritz #3/100

I haven't had time to draw in two weeks. I think this was especially hard because of my absence. I have been working on another project and now that it is done I can return to my life. Hoping to get to drawing (and other things like dishes) on a regular basis now.

Roses 12 and 13/100

After having been side-tracked a little bit, here the next two roses.

Pet Drawings 25 - 32

Had some down time today after church so I took the opportunity to draw the pets. With the warmer temperatures today, they pretty much lounged around all day. Ruby was the most restless. I think that is why I drew her the most, because I kept trying to get a good drawing of her.
Drawn with a 0.9mm mechanical pencil.

Self-Portrait #3 of 100

I very nearly forgot to the results of my 3rd self-portrait here. I thought it would be difficult to do a standing one, but it turns out that it wasn't difficult for the reason I thought it would be. I thought I would be unsteady, and I really had no problems with that at all. My problem was holding my sketchbook for the time it took to sketch. This was done in five minutes, and it's a good thing, because I was beginning to get shaky!

Pet Drawings #23, 24

The first drawing is of Samantha as she was sitting on my leg. Good thing my sketchbook was sitting right next to me so I could pick it up and draw her. Done with a Bic 0.7mm mechanical pencil.The second drawing is of Mr. Frodo sitting on our junk mail. It is funny how cats like to sit on things like that. Drawn with a 0.9mm mechanical pencil.Being at just under 25 drawings of my planned 100, I feel like I am starting to run out of ideas. This is the point where I need to not think about drawing 100 pictures, but to think about simply enjoying the process of observing my subjects and being creative. That's what this is about, right?