A pencil sketch of Agent Carter. Her eyes didn't look quite so deranged before I took the picture...

I drew this for @onbearfeet.bsky.social. :) #CatieDraws

A digital pen sketch of Wolverine and Deadpool, based on some poses that some kids were doing with toy models

The reference photo for my Wolverine and Deadpool sketch, which was no doubt inspired by the color scheme of one toy model being yellow and the other being red

IDK if I'll ever get any more done on this so I thought I should probably post bc I wanted @adorkastock.com's kid friends to know that somebody was drawing from their poses :) #CatieDraws

To the best of my recollection I've never drawn Wolverine before. I've definitely never drawn Deadpool!

A half inked drawing of Gambit over superstar Ed Benes' pencils, which are hard to screw up, and I don't *think* I *am* screwing them up...

This is simultaneously extremely difficult & extremely satisfying. I was going to wait until I'd finished Remy to post again but that may take 200 years so I thought I'd better do another in progress one 😅

Truly my only real goal is to not fuck up Ed Benes' pencils entirely. #CatieDraws #CatieInks

A digitally inked sketch of the X-Men's Gambit

Ed Benes' pencil sketch of Rogue, Nightcrawler, Gambit and Wolverine

I have a ton of X-Men pencils I've downloaded over the years to try inking on. @leahmoore.bsky.social told me to get over myself & actually DO some of that so I started an Ed Benes X-Men drawing he posted today and I think it's hard to screw up his pencils, but I'm pretty proud of this. #CatieDraws

A digital pencil sketch of my hand

A digital ink sketch of my hand

A digital ink sketch of my hand with the pencil layer visible below

Spent some time doing pencils & inking over them. I want to work on the cleanliness of the inks but also kind of like the inks with the pencils below best. It'll be interesting to actually do the course in how to DO this but apparently I want to fumble along on my own in the meantime. 😅 #CatieDraws

A digital drawing of a blonde woman in a red dress in the early stages of coloring.

Incredibly crude (and obviously nowhere near done) but trying to get the idea of using clip layers for shading... #CatieDraws

A digital line sketch of a woman holding two guns

A reference photo of a woman holding two guns

I'm afraid to go any farther for fear of messing it up 😅 #CatieDraws #dtpysfeb26 @theposearchives.bsky.social

a screenshotted text conversation; the first speaker, me, starts with a grimacing emoji and "it gets worse the more often I look at it, tho" followed by: Helpful Friend: Stop looking then?

me, getting what's probably quite good advice while complaining about a #CatieDraws project:

I am, for the first time in several weeks, starting to feel some enthusiasm for the idea of returning to my #CatieDraws project. That suggests I may be recovering from my extremely exhausting December, altho I think I need to continue to take it very gently for a while.

I no longer had any so I bought some for the #CatieDraws project (when it became clear I was going to see it through) and yup I still love them 😁

drawing is hard, why am i doing this to myself, i'm not improving at all, these are stupid, i'm tired, everything still looks stiff and awkward, i'm going to go die in a pit :p #catiedraws

lil pencil sketch mannequin torsos in three quarters view, front and back

More lil' mannequin guys, now in 3/4 view. The lesson is doing 15-20-50-whatever of these, and it's obviously smart to do more of the above ones too so I'm getting lots of practice in, so I'm up to about 10ish hours on the #anatomy part of #CatieDraws & will probably do a couple more hours these.

Ten or twelve upper body mannequin style sketches in pencil

I've done, idk, 15 or 20 of these little mannequin style torso drawings, and know what? Annoyingly? I'm much better at them after that few numbers of repeats than I was when I started. How annoying is that? #CatieDraws

Pencil sketches of (mostly) side view human upper body figures in not much more than stick figure form.

Words done. Time for #CatieDraws. I'm doing a lot, and I mean a LOT, of this kind of thing right now, so it's not really all that exciting to share. Presumably at some point it'll start turning into cooler stuff, but...not yet. :)

a pencil sketch of a cute little boy in a flat cap

Between finishing the first 100 hours, Halloween costumes, and writing retreats, I've really lost momentum on my #CatieDraws project. Trying to get back to it....

do i need to bring ACTUAL PENCILS AND PAPERS to draw on?

i don't, right?

that's (part of) why i'm bringing the tablet, so i can draw on it... #CatieDraws

a load of pencil sketches on a single page, of different sized and shaped bodies in stick figure form. There's a note that says "Get hands in right place - the rest will work!" and this seems to be quite true, actually.

a bunch of trapezoidal upper human body shapes in pencil. I am supposed to do very very very many of these now.

oooh...this next part of #CatieDraws wants us to do at least 20 & the instructor would love it if we did 100-200, & honestly having done, um, 5 so far, it's gonna take 20+ to stop having to refer back to the lesson to remember it right, I think.

they are NOT, however, very interesting to share :)

a collage of several pages of pencil drawings, mostly stick figures, rough perspectives, and skinny lines that are pretending to be people.

There's been a lot going on & I'm having a bit of trouble finding my feet for the next part of #CatieDraws, but I haven't dropped the ball entirely! This is the first part of the course: finding the middles of lines, starting to place figures in space, & developing placeholder figure shapes. :)

An ink sketch of a young man's profile from the right

An ink sketch of a man's profile from the left

Ok, these two aren't entirely bad, although like most of these they don't really look like their models, and as usual they seemed better before I took pictures. :p But I'll call that enough for now. #CatieDraws

Ink sketches of four celebrity profiles. Two of them have absolutely no chance of you guessing who they are. One is one of the most notoriously famous celebrity profiles in history and does a particularly good job of showing my difficulty getting enough depth in, because it's ink and there are repeated attempts at the shape of the nose because I can't erase the failed arrempts. Another looks enough like the person that there's a chance you might figure out who they are.

One of the things I discovered doing the #CatieDraws project is that I still have an unholy fear of giving profiles enough depth. A little of it is that I draw eyes too big*, & possibly part of it is that I have a Disney princess scoop nose myself, but it's hard to overcome. So I'm practicing. :p

(The #CatieDraws thing *has* helped. I haven't drawn Elfquest meaningfully in many, many years, and this is unusually good for straight out of the gate. Moonshade's face is shaped almost exactly right. Strongbow's is too long & not wide enough, STILL, bc that's what I always do, but...it helped.)

A black and white ink sketch of two elves, Moonshade and Strongbow, from Elfquest. Specifically from the back cover of Elfquest issue 11 from the original run. I actually did a pretty good job on Moonshade's face, honestly. Strongbow's is too long and not wide enough, which is what I almost always do with Elfquest. I do not know how Wendy does it. She's untouchable.

Me at 8pm: I will absolutely for sure definitely go to bed at a sensible hour tonight

Me now: I will absolutely definitely stay up way too late finishing Elfquest fan art to see if the #CatieDraws thing has helped any

(with apologies to Wendy Pini, whose art is simply untouchable.)

I'm feeling a bit:

Normal people: *do The Thing*

Me: *does 300 hours of prep work for The Thing first*

about the whole #CatieDraws project right now, tbh

I mean, it's fully due to holding myself to unreasonable standards I would never expect anyone else to meet, but I've accepted who I am, so. 😅

guys i have had SO MANY thoughts about what to do next with the #CatieDraws project and i have mADE DECISIONS and i'm sure it won't be at all boring or tedious for me to post continually about 😬 👀 😅

(no, i understand it must not be, i just feel a bit ZOMG LOOK AT ME!!! about it all. :))

A fairly decent pencil drawing of my son when he was about eight, wearing a flat cap and a crooked smile.

I'm declaring myself done with the (first?) 100 Hours #CatieDraws project. :)

Shout-out to @tadethompson.bsky.social, who for some unearthly reason believed from the get-go that I'd do the whole thing, and who got me started drawing again last year. <3

An okayish ink sketch of a white woman with short hair, wearing a sports bran and standing casually with her arms resting on top of her head. I gotta learn ink shading better.

#CatieDraws a fantastically hot pose from @adorkastock.com. Sort of decently, even. :)

Know what would have made this better? Remembering to block out all the basic shapes first. I LEARNED stuff doing this project, but remembering to IMPLEMENT it, that's apparently a different kettle of fish.

I've realized that I've got two #CatieDraws goals which are arguably antithetical to one another. 🧐

Goal One, which has been the driving force, is my silly little web comic, which even I recognize I COULD do before I started this project, even if I didn't feel I was good enough by my own standards.

My nibling just posted some terrific sketches to the family chat and now I need to go throw myself in a pit. :p #CatieDraws #badly #sigh

A profile sketch of a dark-haired woman gazing upward. It's not bad, I guess.

people are hard to draw :p #CatieDraws

Because I'd previously figured I WOULD run out of coursework before I ran out of hours, I'd planned to spend the remaining time - about 8 hours, at this point - on anatomy, and I'm going to, but, uh... I felt ACTUALLY FINISHING THE COURSEWORK was worth mentioning. :) #CatieDraws