Art, in a manner of speaking

[matril]

There's no question that my primary creative outlet is writing. After that, probably music. In the realm of visual arts, meanwhile...not a lot of talent. I had years of feeling like a total dunce in art class. But then in junior high I discovered a little knack I had - I could copy a logo or drawing by sight, line by line, with decent accuracy. Without tracing, even. ;) Yeah, nothing that would impress an art teacher, but I had some fun with it. Mostly I liked to copy movie titles and animated characters, as they had the most obvious lines to follow. But my favorite project was probably from my set of Queen Amidala paper dolls. I doubt I could have ever drawn them from photographs, but in illustrated form, they turned out pretty good.

Just for fun, here's all eight drawings.



















It's been a while since I've picked up a pencil and drawn something new. Maybe I should try to get my hands on the Episode II paper dolls - those dresses would be wonderfully fun to draw. Hooray for low-stress hobbies. :D