Even Bad Drawings Make Great Gifts

Last year, I started to draw things using pictures as models. So far, the practice has done well for my creative side and even more for my mood when I succeed to get the result I'm after. I may never become a better artist than the other artists who put their work on deviantART, but that's not really my goal. I just want to be able to draw good enough to satisfy myself and that's hard enough as it is.

A couple of months ago, I attempted to draw a picture of my best friend for the second time. Drawing her has proven to be extremely difficult for an amateur like me, because I keep getting her face to look like it was drawn by a newspaper charicaturist. Since I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to details, it's bugging me very much that I can't get her face to look realistic enough. Yet this last attempt made a nice picture for what I had in mind and made a great gift for her birthday a few days ago. After showing her the result, I recieved plenty of thanks and compliments from both her and her family as well as requests for printed copies. What I had done, was draw a picture of my friend holding her nephew and add a text based on a quote from her family about how great aunts are. She's without a doubt a wonderful aunt to her siblings' children and one of the most good-hearted people I've ever met and to make her happy with something so simple as a drawing was more than I could hope for. The drawing, named "Proud Aunty Sickan", can be found in my gallery.