My Achilles Heel ~ Headless Naked Woman ~ aka...an Ankle

I thought I was finished with 

Headless Naked Woman.

Andrea convinced me

...I still had a bit more to learn

from this drawing.

The lessons learned

will be applied to 

My Sweet Sam.

I have great confidence in my art teacher

...Andrea Kindl...

After working on it more in art class,

my Achilles Heel is now finished :)

2nd. Attempt at Drawing Sam ~ at home

Sooo ~ after the lessons of

* gradient value scale

* Headless Naked Woman,

this is the product of those lessons.

I have to give credit where credit is due...

While those lessons were extremely tedious for me,

I can see marked improvement in my work :)

Today is the day after I finished the

Headless Naked Woman at home.

This is my 2nd. attempt at drawing Sam

...both have been without any instructions.

I'm very eager to get instructions on drawing Sam!!

Headless Naked Woman...aka ~ Ankle

Last Monday ~ in art class, I took the first steps toward

drawing my sweet Sam.  I do NOT have adequate words 

to describe my level of frustration.

To learn how to walk, you have to learn how to crawl.

I was first assigned to draw...what I thought was a 

headless naked woman.  Turns out ~ it's an ankle.

Imagine my enthusiasm ;-/

This is as far as I got last Monday.  I was so frustrated; I couldn't look at it

again till today...Saturday.  I believe the only thing that drove me back

to it even then ~ was the thought of having to work on it another class day.

So, here's what I did today.  And, I've declared it finished!!!!!

1st. Step to Learn How to Paint Sam

Art class started up again last night.

I've decided, I need to learn how to draw.

My ultimate goal is to:

...paint Sam :)

My thought is,

you'd better learn how to draw before you learn how to paint.

Last night ~ as an art assignment,

we worked on value & gradient value scale.

If you are anything like me,

you have no idea what that is.?

Here is the result of my class assignment:

Ok ~ so today armed with my

gradient value scale,

I began my 1st. attempt at drawing my sweet Sam.

(I'm not at all happy with this.  I put it here for pure documentation.)

How in the world did I manage to...

age her 25 years

&

look scared to death ;-/

I have a very long way to go.