I suspect that I missed something with this exercise. Off to watch the demo for the “ah-ha” moment…

I tried again after watching the video, giving myself much more freedom to make lines everywhere. I tried to draw some cats this time to switch things up a bit.

Well, I think it’s fair to say I was too focused on getting it right v. thinking about the subject and expressing that through more expressive lines.

To keep myself honest, I’m posting these. I had to redo the boots a few times as my brain refused to let go of its own idea of how laces should look and let me just draw what I could see on the paper.

And we're off! I know very little about this thing we call drawing, so here's to learning something new.