Shiki Snaps: Drawing Time

Practice, practice, practice!

I’m always so impressed with Murky. Not only is she a totally fantastic artist, she’s always looking for ways to improve! I saw her sketching this morning while I was passing through on my way out and didn’t think anything of it. I mean, why would I? She’s always camped out somewhere with her art supplies and I wouldn’t want to disturb her or anything.

I spent a couple of hours shopping (had to decompress from all the studying I’ve been doing, after all!) and when I came back, she was still there drawing! Like, that’s a lot of time to spend drawing! And that’s when I noticed that she wasn’t in our school uniform or even in some typical casual clothes. She was wearing this adorable little cheer outfit! Definitely not something that she would usually wear.

So of course I immediately made a beeline for her and asked what she was doing.

“Practicing,” she answered, glancing up from her sketch.  On the page I saw that character that she’s always drawing and it was dressed exactly the way she was!

“Ooh, I get it!” I crowed. “It makes it easier to draw when you can see it in real-life! Like when you’ve had me model for you.” Murky gave a nod and went back to her sketch, which is the exact moment I struck.

“Speaking of modeling…”

She said no. Why do they always say no?! But I was able to get her to compromise with me; a single, candid shot. And this way, it might also help her with her future drawings of this outfit!

She keeps getting better!