Glad, your profile pic makes me feel as though you and I are having a simple little chat! Love it!

I wander around the house looking at various objects, books, old greeting cards, calendars, photos I have made copies of, until something speaks to my heart that this is what I want to draw. Depending on what that is, if it's an object that I'm going to draw freehand, I just set it on a box at eye level and grab my pencils and paper; If it's a copy of a photo, I choose either to trace the outline for a drawing the same size, or use the straight edge/divider method that Darrel teaches (I'm still practicing this method!) if I am going to resize it. I keep the WIP on my desk so that I can keep it fresh in my mind and am always adding or erasing something whenever I have a moment. When I'm frustrated with it, I move it off my desk to the dining room table and leave it alone for a day or two, but am always studying it, wondering about what to do. I'm a little sad whenever I don't have something in progress... like right now. Other things in life get in the way, work projects or whatever, that I want to complete to be able to free up my mind.

I ordered a divider thru Amazon. We have prime membership, so zero shipping added. The divider was a little over $8.

Hey, kris. Pris Hardy also has a 4 part lesson on YouTube for drawing a dog. Just go to YouTube and type in 'pencils by pris' to bring them up.

We used to play a game something like this when we were kids. We would trade tablets, scribble something, then swap back and try to make something from what the other kid had scribbled. It was a lot of fun! Thanks for the memory!