A good start...

As any artist will attest, drawing a moving object is nothing short of difficult. Children are no exception! As I mentioned in my last post, people are the "object" of focus for me now, concentrating on children. The top image are drawings I did from two separate photos of kids in one of my wife's previous preschool classes. The bottom sketches are of my children as they played. Needless to say, having the subject frozen in time is going to get a better result. But I am encouraged by some of the lines of the bottom sketches, in that I am able to capture the movements of each "pose" as if they were frozen for me. My biggest problem is slowing my sketching down enough to draw what is there (as opposed to what my left brain wants to put there), as well as drawing and "seeing" fast enough to get the action on paper before it is gone from memory. In other words, looking at the subject more than the paper. And, as the sketches show, a lot of practice with faces.