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Hello Blog,
So today I am starting a blog. My art class started 2 days ago. This is an online course. On the site there are already tons of artwork posted. I've seen beautiful work. I have done one assignment and posted it to the site. Posting it just about scared me to death.  My piece was good in some ways and I will get to that  in a minute. I watched my teacher on the computer screen and drew with messy charcoal and white pastel. What a mess. She was showing us in her speed how to fill in the shadows and the darkest places first. Then she starts to form.  The young face I drew was kinda ugly. I know I need work on the eyes and the nose. My teacher has posted a hand out showing us how to  do them and that will be the next thing I work on. Anyway, I did post my work with my breath held in. The next day I took a look and there were some nice words and likes from my fellow students. You know what? The most important like was also there. That was the like from my teacher.
On one of the pages I have seen artwork from more than 100 students that signed up for this 6 week course. Most of the work, no all of the work on that page is good, very good and excellent. So when I went to post my ugly young girl, I had second thoughts about doing so.
I'm still here.