Introduction

All drawing is based on a number of technical skills – proportion, perspective, shading, colour, etc. These are applied to whatever you want to draw – such portraits, animals, scenery, robots, monsters, concept art, aliens using whatever medium you want – pencil, pastels, paint (including digitally). After this you find a style such as hyper realism, comic, caricatures, abstract.

Where I want to end up

I have an idea of where I want to end up and what I want to do be but not fixed to it. When I’ve developed a habit and got some basic skills under my belt then hopefully my style will develop as well and preferred medium.

As I want to illustrate, I think you sort of need to know at a basic level how to draw a full range of things, humans, animals, objects, scenery. One of my big targets is to illustrate stories about my cats with a view to publishing and raising funds for a cat charity.

So when I’ve developed these targets and considered the references to practice, those longer term targets have been taken into account.

You can choose your own focus – so if you do not want to draw faces or human bodies, then you can find your own references where I’ve used those as reference for the target.  

Targets 1 to 3 – Build a drawing habit