Art Reboot

Dear Wal,

No, I'm not talking about rebooting this blog. It's only been around for a year, and if I've learned anything from the New 52, it's that reboots are a bad idea. What I mean by rebooting, is that I'm rebooting several things I've been either trying to work on, or just started and never finished, or that I used to do and don't do anymore. Case in point, drawing. I haven't finished a single picture in about a year. My deviantart account is sorely neglected. I used to draw all the time-mostly horses, because...well, I own two horses. It's kind of natural that I would want to draw them, and plus I've been around horses since I was brought into the world.  
My sister, Janine, is an official artist-if there is such a thing. She went to school for art-her stuff is amazing. She does all kinds of things-pottery, charcoal, oil paintings, book binding. We have a few of her paintings hanging (literally, haha...I'm funny) around the house, and she made a few books and pieces of pottery for us. The cup she made for Dad is his most favorite thing in the entire universe.
Books she made:

Dad's favorite cup:

(c) Janine Paris, by the way

Anyway, we are a very artistic family. I'm nowhere as skilled as Janine, but I can draw an anatomically correct horse like a boss. Next on my list is being able to draw an anatomically correct superhero. You've probably seen my pitiful attempts at doing this. I kind of...suck at drawing superheroes. However, I'm picking it up faster than I picked up drawing horses. I had to develop a lot of skills in order to draw horses that I didn't have, like how to use the tools available to me: pencils, pencils, and more pencils, and how to develop a drawing from a sketch... Drawing, like writing and pretty much everything else that I do, is not as simple as it looks. I have all those skills now, which makes learning to draw something a lot easier.
Where is all this leading? I seem to have lost my point somewhere in my rambling.
I decided this weekend that I was going to start drawing more superheroes. I.e., doing at least two pictures (however terrible) a week. That probably isn't going to happen, but at least it will get me more into the habit of drawing again. Here is my first attempt, with a brand-new sketchbook:

Unfortunately, you can't see him very well because my scanner doesn't pick up the pencil very well on this paper. It's special marker paper. It makes me happy. This picture is probably going to have several different versions of itself posted.














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P.S. I'm writing this at school. I'm so bad.