Project 365: Day # 64 - Monday, November 7, 2011 "Going through some drawings"

I had some free time on my hands and I used it to clean out my closet in my room and I see that there's a box that's inundated with my pieces of art that I had since my freshmen year of high school when I had fundamentals of art during my second semester. When I saw how superfluous that stack was, I just couldn't help myself from not going through it. I'm glad I went through that crazy stack because it was a chance for me to really look at how much I've progressed as an artist over the years that I've been drawing and painting. But as I was going over the pile of artwork, I decided to lay them across my bed just so I could organize them better and easier. About five minutes later, I see a drawing I did for someone last year. It was one of my best drawings ever. I saw that one be the true breakthrough of my drawing as far as being an artist. This was my first time drawing a person's face after over three years when I did portraits in middle school. And even during that time, I was still struggling with that concept. But now I trusted myself and my style of drawing. This mentality that I was able to keep up was the key to my sucess as an artist and it will soon apply to something much more of key value.