Following up on the character sketches I was working on last week for a Skillshare class, I now have my character drawn in four poses: neutral (although she looks a little arrogant), surprised, sad and disgusted. The 3/4 pose is going to be more difficult—and then to finish the exercise I’m going to paint one of them in a final piece.

Like I said about this little class project, I am focused right now on developing skill and style with drawing characters non-realistically, and my current quest is to find my own expressive way. So far, I’d say this is a great exercise that leads me just a little further along.

I highly recommend taking on little projects to work toward goals—and taking classes like this one on Skillshare to develop those personal projects can be really helpful.