Making Progress

Drawings from my past keep showing up on Facebook. It’s a little surprising for me to see some of the pictures I had done years ago. In my memory, I’ve always drawn pretty much the same as I do now. Such is not the case though; I’ve improved over the years. Progress happens so slow that it’s imperceptible. In my art, I can’t feel any improvement from one picture to the next. Nevertheless, progress happens, and all we need to see the fruits of our labor, is the right perspective.

Here is a picture drawn my senior year in high school:

Here is one drawn last week:

Being born with talent would be a lot easier, but being ignorant of so many things myself, I find it more encouraging that skills can be learned.