Sketch a day - Day 221/365

Jane and I got our hair cut today. Our hairdresser Chloe loves Tucker so we take him in to see her on haircut days. He loves her. He gets very excited. There are few people Tucker likes, so it's very lovely to see him giddy over seeing a human friend. After our haircuts we went to see my niece and her boyfriend and my sis and her dog Bernard-the-bad (not pictured because he must have been snuffling in some leaves behind Sarah’s legs). And Tucker loves visiting Bron and Sarah (and he kind of likes Connor. He is a bit scared of men, but Connor is one of his favourite boys) and all in all it was a happy Tucker day. Full of treats, favourite people, smells, walks, Bernard nose to bum sniffing, chin tickles and joy. The humans involved had a lovely day too. It had lunch and a walk and a lot of laughter.

My god. A day off.

Drawing this evening, I thought about the drawinga I have done recently and how annoyed I have been with them. I mean, after yesterday's effort I think it's amazing Jane hasn't divorced me. So today, I thought about how I haven't been doing sketch warm ups. I have just been plunging in. And that's ridiculous. No wonder everything has felt stiff and failing to flow. But I have been telling myself I don't have time. Time time time! Always never enough. Unless we decided there was enough. I just thought today, ‘today I am going to decide there is enough time to do a warm up drawing’ (see below). And I feel like the drawing I did afterwards (see above) is finally a sketch I set out to draw. Or near enough. I haven't felt like that for ages. What a difference a warmup makes.

And that's the news