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Building things, like my relief sculptures, is both fun and easy for me.

But sometimes it’s good to do things that aren’t easy. One of the many things that isn’t easy for me is drawing. So I practice it most mornings.

Here is one of my drawings:

And another, drawn from a photo in a magazine:

I’ve recently started taking a pencil drawing course*. It’s helping me with value—which is artist-speak for light and dark. Artists use value to give drawings and paintings a feel of depth.

Here is what I’ve drawn for the class so far:

I’ll keep at it and continue to get better. But I’ll probably never love it as much as I love building things.

*The class is taught by Nolan Clark. He also teaches a reasonably priced how-to class about selling art, which I absolutely loved.