I started to taste the sweetness of sketching from ballpoint pen sketching. I felt that this was a feeling I had never experienced before, very efficient and accomplished. Then I slowly started to get into architectural sketching. Architecture, especially those in European style, is definitely my thing. I never thought that I could draw it with just one pen. I am very proud of it.

From the initial worship of sketching to the full devotion now, I started the path of still life sketching. In fact, it's not that advanced. I just followed the teacher I admired and drew a few paintings that I thought were pretty good. Gradually, I just started to enter the palace of sketching.

The focus of this period’s painting is on shoes, from casual shoes, to running shoes, to high heels, slippers, and leather shoes. I bit the bullet and finished them all.

During this process, I thought about giving up, because some of them were really hard for me to stand, and these shoes would be uncomfortable on anyone’s feet. Although I insisted on painting five pairs of shoes in the end and would not paint shoes again for a while, I suddenly had an understanding.

The essence of sketching lies in the grasp of light and shade, which is similar to sketching

Once you know where should be bright and where should be dark, your sense of picture will come out, even if There are still big problems with your form at first, but I can see what you want to express. Once you find the right relationship between light and dark, improve your ability to capture shapes and practice a few more times, your paintings will be perfect.

This sketch is the one I have been doing for a long time. I also hope to be able to achieve something on the road of sketching, so I am still persisting.

Suddenly I remembered that the several difficult architectural sketches I had decided to finish before were only pencil sketches. I should go back and make up for my homework.