All the imperfections!

No 65: draw your sink. I chose the bathroom sink.

My interpration of the bathroom sink.

No 43: Draw something made of china or ceramic.

I'm really enjoying this challenge. I hope I am not boring you all with post after post of my daily(ish) sketches. It wasn't until I popped the photographed image and the sketched image on my blog that I noticed all the imperfections.  Not round enough, not in proportion, to long, to short, the shading is wrong, the colour not quite right etc... the list is endless. A while ago this would have totally disheartened me, I'd have become upset and think failure! whats the point? Today however, I have a different out look. I tell myself "ok its far from perfect but I enjoyed creating it and I have learnt a lot during the process". Now I look at all the imperfections and try to learn from them. I am not saying this then makes the next one perfect, far from it but what it does do is give me a reason to move forward. In today's sketch I was totally baffled when I tried to mix the colour for the body of the teapot and cup. Normally I would just mix what I think resembles it then go straight to the page. This time I took a totally different approach as you can see from the image above. I took an extra piece of paper and did multiple mixes of colour until I find what I considered to be closet. I think this was the hardest part of today's sketch but again I learnt a lot. Especially about mixing the colours blue and yellow. I think I might draw this teapot and cup again and see if there is a improvement from the first sketch? However for now I think its time for cuppa.