I committed last February to drawing every day for at least thirty minutes. I didn't want to blow it just because a bunch of unforeseen circumstances took control of my day.
As I headed down to my basement to feed my dogs, it hit me: draw the dogs eating! I have to stand around and watch them anyhow, so no one (namely the cats) bullies anyone out of their food. That would be at least ten good drawing minutes.
I only got Nora inked before she finished eating. Both of them ran upstairs for the post-dinner nap ritual, so I followed. I sketched Nik as he fell asleep.
You can see from the unfinished sketch at the bottom that I tried to sketch Tim as he considered a nap with the dogs, but he left before I got much done.
Then I got dinner underway and instead of watching the news, I painted my sketches. Good practice learning the watercolors.
Some days, you just can't sneak a good scribbling session into the day. But you can sneak some scribbling into the cracks and it can add up to good time and good practice.
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