Lesson one - 3 drawings

I finally got around to drawing the first three tasks in my book 'Learning to draw on the right side of the brain'.
It involved drawing 1) my self portrait 2) my hand 3) someone from memory.
The first, my own picture, was hard. The finished product looks like someone from a criminal suspect flyer, but I think in some ways it does resemble me. The hair I still have no idea what to do with and things aren't the right sizes. By the end of the book hopefully it'll be better.
The second drawing, my hand wasn't to bad. The picture isn't perfect, but it's OK. I messed up the darkness of the shadow shades around the hand near the end, and have no idea how to shade in the top of the hand.
The third, drawing a person from memory, was the hardest. I tried to draw my dad. I hope he can forgive me for this truly bad picture (In the future I swear I'll make a better one  Dad!) One thing I found interesting, was that even though I rushed it out, I found myself shading under the nose and on the lips the same way I did on my self portrait. It also seems that not only do I need to improve my drawing, but also my spelling. It's Awful with out the 'e' haha.
Good stuff!

Animating walks

I've been reading 'The animators survival kit' for a few weeks now, picking it up when I can. Currently I'm about half way through the book, and find it to be a superb guide. I thought it would be time to try animating a walk, which some say is the hardest thing to animate. My skills with a wacom tablet are far from sexy, and I hope they improve a bit over time, but here you'll find my first two attempts at a walk.

Life drawing lesson one

So I attended the first life drawing class in six years tonight. It was fantastic!
The location reminded me so much of my old art college back in Doncaster, and I was happy to see the room crowded with eager faces.
As I expected, my drawings were fairly poor to begin with, but after a few handy words from the teacher I improved a bit, and by my last drawing of the night I was quite happy with the result.
I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing.

My girlfriend described the drawing to the right as being like a sack of Potatoes haha.

I'm happiest with my final drawing of the evening below.