Day 1 - Pleasantly Shocked

Alright so bear with me. I haven't actually sat down with the idea of drawing in literally a year or two. I also don't own a scanner yet, so for the next month or so I will be having to document my drawings with my digital camera.

Here's my first drawing. It's on a A4 piece of paper in my sketchbook.

The reason why the paper had this weird shadow to it is because I had to adjust levels in Photoshop. I don't have very strong lights in my place and it's currently overcast outside. This took me about an hour, an hour and a half or so.

To be honest I'm not very pleased with it, it's very simplistic and I had a hard time even figuring out what I was doing as I was drawing it. I don't really know if I did the perspective correctly, but all in all, as a first drawing after a couple of years I don't think it's horrible.

But I still wasn't very happy, so I went online and found a small tutorial on how to draw an realistic eye, which I then drew in my A5 sized Sketchbook.

This I have to say, is much better. I do know it's based off a tutorial, and most of the thinking was done for me, but that still doesn't mean you can pull it off. I'm glad this one came out well as I'm now sure I still possess some of the drawing skills I used to have.

This drawing took me almost 3 hours.

Oh and the guy who did the eye tutorial was talking about a color blender. It obviously blends your colors or graphite better than your finger (which is what I'm doing currently) but I have no idea what it actually is. If anyone could tell me what it looks like and how much it costs I'd be able to go out and get one. (google wasn't helpful when typing in "color blender')