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Old November 30th, 2008, 10:30 pm
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My first attempt at art...
In the last few weeks I've accidentally discovered I can draw. I did some Halloween pictures on a couple of small windows in work, and then my manager asked me to paint another picture - which I did and I copied it from a story book that we had, and then it kind of snowballed into me doing the Christmas windows at work as well! Tomorrow I'm going to try and take a few pictures of the windows that I have done already to show ye, but here's a couple pictures that I drew tonight. Now I'm beginning to wonder why I gave up art after first year in secondary school???

A penguin I did on one of the windows in work - copied from a story book.


Tigger that I only drew tonight, copied from a picture I found on the net:


Tigger before I coloured him in


So that's my new hobby, for years I thought I was bad at art, but maybe I just needed some motivation (like a good excuse for wasting a few hours in work )


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The Tigger-drawing is so adorable (they both are!) You're really good already, keep up the good work!


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very cute! keep it up


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not bad


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Quite the artist, good job..keep it up!!


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Re: My first attempt at art...
I really like those, they are adorable Well, since you are interested in getting better in art, I would recommend you to read Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain book, I read it a while ago and now I've learned to draw amazing things with coal, pastels, even brushes It was a great motivation for me, when I started giving up on art.


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Those are really cute.

You should start an art journal, it's a good excuse to treat yourself to a nice moleskin lol!


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Pretty good! If you do more, post it!


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It was really good! I like the first one.


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Nice job on both of these pictures .


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