At the moment I have started my drawing for starting off the comparison. Then, I have to draw the same picture again, after researching the techniques of drawing. I am going to research how to make a drawing look realistic which is mostly shading and tone. My next step is to finish the first drawing, so I can start the next. I can't say as much of what I've learnt so far, because it’s just the starting and I'm going to start my realistic drawing research when I start my second drawing.

I got many tips from a website (http://www.learn-to-draw.com/shading/). I got a very good tip of not distracting yourself when you are drawing. You are not suppose to keep touching your computer or laptop if the picture you are drawing is on your laptop. It was recommended that you keep your desktop timing to the longest, so you don’t have to keep checking your laptop. There were also tips for basic drawing: tone, shading, materials you need, artistic thinking modes, lines, shapes and shadows. (http://www.learn-to-draw.com/drawing-basics/default.shtml) Now, I just hope the drawing will come out good. 

For my genius hour I have decided to draw. I picked drawing for my genius hour because I like to doodle when I am bored and I think that if I improve, I can become much better.  So far, I've been researching on different types/ styles of drawing and some tips. I want to mostly work on realistic drawing because I see some drawings others have drawn, and they look amazing because they look real. So I want to improve on my drawing, to make it look real. Since drawing is a hands on type of skill, it will take a while to improve because you have to take your time and not rush. I haven’t improved on my drawing skills yet, but I will soon. So far, I've used Google to research the types of drawing and used Youtube to get some tips on realistic drawing. There’s not much tips on Google about realistic drawing, it’s mainly about the history of the specific type of drawing, so that’s when I decided to use Youtube as a second resource.

Since I used Google and Youtube so far, neither of them are the greatest resource because they haven’t quite helped me yet. Maybe, I might ask a friend who is very good at drawing, to help me out a little and find a book with some good techniques. My next step is to draw something the way I draw at the moment and then to draw the same thing using the techniques I have found. Then compare them to see my improvements. I hope that by the end of drawing both of the pictures I will have a big improvement and it looks good.