Draw Every Day

Sometime ago I wrote down the following in my idea notebook: "draw every day". I sat on that for a year or so and finally decided to start. For now, I'm just drawing from a photograph -- I'm taking it slow. Below is my first attempt after not drawing (regularly) for more than 15 years:

Not much detail, more stylized. Two weeks later and I'm starting to get brave -- moving into more complex pictures and trying to (re)-learn technique:

With five kids, it's hard to find a moment of silence to just sit and draw. For this reason, I've limited my drawings to 30 minutes (which sometimes turns into an hour). Perhaps we can turn this into a "family drawing night".