Sketching? ME? Really?

I am taking a course through Learn to Paint Academy on painting people. Before you can paint them you have to sketch them. OMG, I can't sketch anything! This is gonna be bad!


In honesty, the class project was to sketch simple figures, without detail in the faces. But I jumped in the deep end.

To my astonishment, I was able to do a sketch of my daughter and it really looks like her.

Then I tried to sketch my eldest. I will not show that one because she is looking at of angle, about 1/4 profile and slightly looking down. I can't seem to get the perspective correct. I will continue to look for a good picture of her that I can sketch.

Then I tried sketching a close family member's little girl. She is just over a year and I think I aged her a bit. At one point you could not tell if it was a baby or an old lady.

 

Then.... If I can sketch a face, maybe I can paint a face....