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Finding time for Art when you have a 9 to 5, bills, rent, young kid's, a wife, and that occasional freelance assignment that you wish would come around more often. $,$,$, time, time, time. Wish I had more of both, but I do manage to make time for art. Even if it's just to doodle in my sketch book daily. Inspiration will eventually strike and somehow, when it does, I find the time I need to do what it is I'm inspired to do. I don't know how I find that time but I do.
That first page in my sketchbook can be a bit intimidating. I guess it helps my confidence to start with a good drawing on the very first page. Then of course it makes the next page a bit of a challenge to follow up.
These are the first two drawings in a brand new sketchbook. I used a photo for reference on both though I exaggerated and changed the one of the old man a good deal. The other is a photo of my wife that I took. They were done on my lunch hour at work so I spent about a half an hour on each. I used water soluble pencils and a brush pen filled with black ink on both drawings.
They are not perfect drawings of course but they seem like a pretty good start to continue to return to my sketchbook and try to out do what I did on the previous sketch.
