Useful and fun!

I went shopping last week and spotted these pencils while I was out - I think I've mentioned my painful  hands before and these are perfect to help me, the 'curly' looking bit is made of foam..making the pencils larger and therefore easier for me to hold! :)
Now I don't know if its just me but for some reason other than them being extremely useful for me I find these pencils pleasing to look at! (Am I mad? lol)

I know this pic is quite dark but I quite like the mood of it :)

Now all I have to do is get drawing with them!

A challenge to myself

I know this is probably going to seem a little mad, but this is a huge thing for me!
Whenever I do drawings I always do them way too small, almost as if i'm frightened of making a mistake or if I do it will be so small it won't matter (too much), I rarely colour them in any way, I always stick with safe things to draw
instead of creating something I want and if i'm honest I hardly ever actually finish something either. So the challenge to myself was:

1. To create something completely different
2. Make it large -A4 (I know this isn't huge but believe me to me its gigantic!)]
3. Colour it
4. FINISH it!!

I did all of this for the first time probably ever!! I know its hardly a masterpiece but i'm very proud of myself!

A small drawing

I go through phases of drawing, not really sure why I don't do it all the time, i'd probably be better at it if I did, but life seems to get in the way all too often!
This is a drawing I did recently copied from an image, would love to learn to draw from real live things infront of me, maybe one day!
Need to learn to do the shading better, although probably not totally right on this I was quite pleased with it, stopped adding colour at this point though before I spoilt it!