Anecdote

I’ve just (finally!) got myself a sketchbook and some graphite sketching “sticks”. I started sketching without any reference pictures, and it turned out OK, but not too good. So I decided to start by using references. First one I did was from Pauline Baynes awesome illustrations in the Chronicles of Narnia series, in the “Horse and his Boy”:

I think this turned out pretty good. There’s something not quite right about the front foot though…

Yesterday and today, I’ve been sketching based on a reference photo of a field mouse by a user called “gazzat”, that I found on Flickr:

I think it turned out pretty good actually. I think maybe the fingers at the bottom are not quite right. The next step is to draw something entirely from imagination!