I’ve been taking in some tutorial vids, mostly in basic working habits and trying to do a little bit of drawing every day, and ran across this nice one from Sycra on HOW to practice drawing, by sort of picking a subject and trying to coax yourself to do it faster on the next try, with the goal of kind of ‘beating’ the subject into your muscle memory. Once I dragged myself out of bed and got my errands done, I curled up with a sketchpad and started drawing mainly eyes and mouths interspersed with a few faces with horribly placed features. Then I switched to the Wacom and screwed around until one of my doodles managed to ‘nail’ the image of Dixie’s mother I had in my head.

Yes, it apparently took me months to come up with ‘an older looking Dixie with shorter hair and a different barrette. LEMME ALONE!

I went ahead and colored her page-mate because I kind of liked her weird expression.