This is how a warm-up page usually looks. Sketchbooks are great for warming up.
My hand was trying hard to translate for my eyes, so I was about on the third of six sketches of this one particular person in this one particular photo. Chas walked in.
I told him that drawing is a lot like exercise, in that you have to warm up your muscles before you can run.
I told him, also, that this person’s face was particularly difficult, so I had to keep trying to capture it until I was happy with the translation. I also explained that I was a little “out of shape.” 😉
“I’ll help you, mommy.” which he did, here and there.
He, too, was satisfied with the sixth drawing, that one in the lower right.
