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Dusty and Rusty

round-neck longhorn beetle

Wow, it's been an incredibly long time since I used this site and pretty much my entire life has changed in the meantime. I had to reset my password and re-learn how to use this...old stuff and new (still a bit foggy...).

Besides allowing the dust to collect, or perhaps a result of, my drawing has become a bit rusty, too, which I've found happens when I lay down the pencil for too long. Life gets in the way sometimes (not always good, but not always bad either).

The above pencil sketch is my attempt to return to the groove. I'm imposing a daily sketch regimen - exercise! Calisthenics for my rusty hand/brain coordination. This particular insect was photographed by me in northeastern Iowa in 2014 when I was visiting my grandma. I remember being so excited that I found it, and so eager to draw it's portrait...and I'm just getting to it now, in 2019. Life. Happens.


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