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Wow. What a first month. I took on this task to help build my skill and strengthen my discipline as a whole. In the course of the first 31 days I’ve learned that drawing daily illustrations is a very big task. Currently I’m about 10 images behind on this project, I’m not giving up though. Its been difficult and rewarding. The first step is always the hardest one but now I’m deep into this there’s no turning back. More work coming tomorrow.  In the meantime peep my favorite pieces from this month after the break…

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Today as I walked my daughter to school in the snow. We came across this little girl which you see above. I call her Betty Boots. Now this ISN’T a faithful recreation of her look but how I saw her in my mind and all I could remember were here incredibly big boots. Almost unimaginable how big they were they had to be hand-me downs since she practically swam in them.

As I said before I’m really getting comfortable in drawing with the Wacom. This image was done completely in Photoshop with no pencil sketch scanned in. All this practice is paying off… Let’s see how these things look early next month. Till tomorrow. Enjoy the pics tell your friends, I’m in this thing for the long haul.

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