One of my goals for the year is to learn/relearn to draw. Now, the last time I had an art class was middle school, and while I took art for three years, the instruction wasn't very high-level then. I doodled a lot after that, because it was the only way I could keep my mind on topic in class, but once I was out of school, that was the end of my drawing days. I never had any illusions that I could draw well (even if certain people told me I drew better than I thought I did; I trusted their opinions, but knew I couldn't draw as well as I might have liked).

I'm coming at it by working through the lessons at drawabox.com. The price is right (free!) and the lessons start in the right place for me (there's no assumption that you can immediately dive into figure drawing).

Below are my results from the first lesson.

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