GETTING STARTED

INTRODUCTION

When my students ask what my last name is, I tell them, “It’s ‘draw’—backwards.” Besides being part of my name, drawing has always been an important part of my life. Some of my earliest memories involve doodling on a yellow legal pad with a pen I snagged from my mom’s purse . . . on the backside of a paper menu at a restaurant with crayons . . . on the metal cabinets in my dad’s shop with chalk.

Years later, I’m still an avid drawer. From “100-Day Drawing Challenges” to filling a hand-bound sketchbook within a month while traveling abroad, drawing is a huge part of my life. It has taken years of practice, countless erased drawings, and many, many embarrassing sketchbooks to develop my own style, grow my skills, ...

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