My last day of waiting in car line to pick up my daughter from school was yesterday. I get to car line about 30 minutes before school ends and use the waiting time to work on drawings. It has definitely helped me develop my drawing skills, and it’s kept the art habit alive. I guess I celebrated my last day adding scales to the brown part of my fish. I’m aiming for the head to be the focal point, so I am concentrating most of my detail there. I will smudge out the scales the farther back on the fish I go.
I will adjust for color variations next. Here it is, with a closeup of the scales:
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Weston’s writing attracts both fantasy and non-fantasy readers, and her audience ranges from upper-elementary students to adults. A gifted orator, Weston has been invited as a guest speaker to numerous writing and science fiction/fantasy panels at conventions across the US, including DragonCon, BabelCon, NecronomiCon, and Alabama Phoenix Festival. She has served on panels with such authors as Sherrilyn Kenyon, J. F. Lewis, Todd McCaffrey, and Jonathan Maberry. Weston has spoken to thousands of students and adults about the craft of writing and has been invited as the keynote speaker at youth camps and at several schools throughout the US.
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