In the last couple of weeks, this one artist I follow has been doing anatomical studies of feet, and they are AMAZING. Inspired by her efforts, tonight I decided to do an anatomical study myself. I need practice drawing hands, so here's my evening's effort:

I think the palm may be a bit narrow relative to the length of the fingers, but it was too late to fix that by the time I noticed, so that's something to pay attention to for next time. I also tried, while adding shadows and depth shading, to use the direction of my pencil strokes to emphasize three dimensionality. I hope that's working a bit.

A few friends and I meet every Wednesday night for a zoom where we all chat while drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. We've decided to challenge ourselves with a weekly drawing prompt. I'm pretty excited about it, because lately some weeks the only drawing I do is the drawing I do during this zoom, and this new challenge means I will be drawing TWO things each week haha.

This week was our first show-and-tell for our prompted drawing, and our prompt word was 'formal'. I went with a formal dinner setting:

I feel like my forks are too short relative to the plates and to the knife, and the goblets are slightly more cartoony than the rest of the dinnerware, but on the whole I am pretty happy with this, too. 

I hope everyone has something to be grateful for this week. It's been a very difficult year for many reasons, personal and global, and I look forward to spending tomorrow focusing instead upon the many ways I have been lucky and blessed. Have a safe and pleasant holiday!