My Pencil Drawings
I've been doing pencil drawings since I was in grade school. Drawing was always one of my interests. Most of those early sketches were discarded years ago. In 1976, I took a class in drawing with charcoal on newsprint. These were still lifes like cans and bottles. One sketch I did was of my old neighborhood. I was laying across the bed and was staring out the window when I drew a sketch of houses in the 600 block of Chestnut Street in Columbia. That was drawn using a standard #2 pencil.
I didn't do as many sketches when I started woodburning and painting, It wasn't until the late 1990's when I bought a sketch book and did a few sketches. The book went on a shelf until within the beginning of 2012, when I happened to open it again. I found YouTube videos posted by a man named Mark Crilley. He is an artist who has mastered the art of drawing Menga figures (a Japanese style of drawing). After watching some of his videos on drawing faces, I did a few sketches in the book using a 0.3mm lead pencil.