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Message: <blockquote data-quote="resparza" data-source="post: 3357158" data-attributes="member: 100895">Thank you Trevor. Yes I'm trying to use a bit more colour, and trying to find the best colour medium for those dodgy sketchbooks. Light watercolour washes seem to work ok, as long as I don't do it too wet. Unfortunately I bought too many of those sketchbooks. I'll use them up and then will try something better.Those sketches take anything from 10 minutes to about an hour; most often about a half hour, I'd say. I'm getting a bit faster att doing them, and I guess they're also getting better (sometimes).Having a full time job, I can only affort do do a daily sketch, although every now and then I manage to do other things. Here are two recent examples: a seedeater in oil pastels and an eider in watercolours (on somehow better paper). I also have a small doodle sketchbook where I draw random stuff almost every day.I guess I could try to spend more time on weekends trying to do larger or more complicated stuff. Maybe that could be a sort of "Weekly animal" project <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Thank you again for the feedback!</blockquote>