So how long before he gets good at this?

     Well, last time I was pretty much a lazy douchebag, what with my not putting up the final picture in my "how I'm trying to not suck at drawing" manual.  I left you all high and dry, moist and wanting.   I've been focusing on the drawing lately, which I never intended to be the focus of this blog.  Who cares though, right? It's what I've been doing, so it's what you get.  Maybe to start off I'll show you what should have been the final image from my last update.

     I was "pleased" with the final product, but there's lots I want to work on.  For one, I want to expand on what kind of poses and perspectives I can do, along with working on various head-related things.  Things like faces and hair, which you can clearly see have a long way to go.  As far as trying different poses, I suppose I should have maybe looked up some common ways human beings stand, but that's way less fun than just drawing a stick figure and seeing where it takes you.

 

      This is for you Harry Potter superfans.  I know it doesn't really come up in the book, but Harry has a rare condition where the funk causes him to dance until he dies of exhaustion or dehydration.  I guess it never came up because J.K. Rowling had a bad experience with Bootsy Collins and a bottle of Beefeater.  I don't know exactly what dance move Harry is dropping here, but whatever it is must be good for toning the glutes.  I'm not terribly disappointed with this one, but the head is a little bit of a trainwreck.  After this one I wanted to do some drawings with a focus on heads, with varying degrees of success.

     Ok, so the face is pretty horrible here.  I was taking a stab at some Adventure Time facial expressions and really wasn't able to make it work.  I think in that case it's probably because I tried too hard,  the simplicity of the faces in shows like that is what ties the whole thing together.  I straight up need to buckle down and start making some faces that aren't mushy turds.

    
     Ok, now we're talking! It's pretty sad that I'm admitting that this is, so far, one of the best faces I've ever drawn.  I know the shading is a bunch of bullshit but I'm sort of getting used to that too.  One thing is for sure, how the fuck do you draw hats? Jesus.  Anyway, this picture still sidesteps the fact that I don't know how to draw hair either.  I guess I should at least make an attempt at a hairstyle so I don't seem like a total cop-out.

    See, that's way better.  I didn't mean for this to come out manga-style when I started on it, but it's what happened and there's no turning back.  In the immortal words of Robert Tepper, "I'm not asking for another chance, I just want to know why there's no easy way out, there's no shortcut home". 

     So there you have it! As slow as it's been, I can honestly say I've made some semblance of progress.  I guess to end this entry I want to give a shout out to Russia.  I noticed that there's upwards of 2 people from Russia that check this wet fart of a blog out once in a while, and that's kind of mind blowing.  So here's my shout out: HEY RUSSIA, WHAT UP BROSKIS!