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February's Progress On the last day of February I finished Chapter 10 of Kistler's You can draw in 30 days.  It was a disappointing session.  The first nine chapters are dedicated to teaching different techniques for understanding scale: foreshortening, placement, size, overlap, shade, shadow, contour, horizon, and density.  The tenth chapter finally takes you out of that and asks you to draw an observed object.  In this case, three coffee mugs placed with a light source to the upper right, to give shadow and depth. I apparently have what my old art teacher refers to as "compromise hand."  My brain knows that the top of a coffee cup is a ci

How to become a great artist: Pick a goalReach for itEvaluate the gap between your reach and your goal.If you got closer to your goal, goodIf you didn't get closer, take an alternative pathRepeat as necessary. On this spectrum, I have been failing at #4.  But at least I've started drawing again.