Today’s idea involved shadows, and I’m sure there was a story in there somewhere, but it is eluding me. So here is a very bad rendition of what I remember from my Jon Gnagy Learn to Draw set. The lesson on shadows involved a winter scene with a tree, fence posts, and, I think, a mailbox, that you were supposed to render in charcoal. I’m sure Jon’s composition was much nicer.

You’re talking “shadows,” but as soon as I saw this, I thought “lesson in perspective” 🙂