Hello!

Today I decided to share some nice drawing lessons I've been doing, with you.

I've wanted to work on my drawing for a while now and got books and stuff but never went further than the first chapters. So, I decided to look online for interesting looking lessons/tutorials.

After some searching I came across Drawspace.com, which offers some excellent free lessons on drawing. (It also offers paid lessons, which I have not tried, so, I do not know how they are.)

The lessons are easy to understand and you follow steps to gradually achieve the final result.
It starts from beginner lessons and the basics, and goes on to to intermediate and advanced subjects. And all the while you can mark your progress and compare your lesson results with others.

It's the first time in a while I haven't gotten bored and continued practicing! :)

Here are some of the drawings I made from the lessons: 

From tutorial "Grendel Gremlin"

From tutorial "Seeing Shapes of a Horse's Head"

From tutorial "Seeing Shapes of a Horse's Head"

Hope someone finds them as helpful as I do. :)

Also, a bonus picture of my cat, Chloe, being very serious.

Until next time!

Hello!

So, I finally finished the first pillowcase!

Removing the waste canvas was a little trickier than I had thought, but I got it in the end. The instructions said to "steam wet", so I wet the fabric and pressed it with the iron on the wrong side a bit. Though, in retrospect, I should have put an extra layer of fabric in between because my iron now has traces of glue.
Oh, well!
Here are some pictures of the process. It wasn't easy pulling the wet threads by hand, so I thought I'd used eyebrow tweezers instead. It did the trick wonderfully and it was much easier that way.

Removed the hoop.

Just starting to remove the waste canvas...

Wow! The tweezers really did the trick!

And the finished pillowcase!

It looks cool, but I think it looks kinda bare, I might need to embellish it a bit. :)
Hope you enjoyed watching as much as I enjoyed making it!

Till next time!