I don't sketch enough
For the past few years, since I started hacking on Krita in 2003, I have spent nearly all my spare time on Krita and KOffice. In the beginning, I did remember to spare a little time for actually drawing and painting, but quite soon I stopped doing event that. And whenever I picked up my pen, pencil or brush I noticed that what little skill I may have had had detoriated quite a lot.
That sketch, after Caravaggio, is fairly recent. I have been capable of things like:
These sketches are done with plain pencil, eraser, thumb and index finger. I still cannot sketch with Krita as I can with a pencil: Krita and Gimp can keep up with the rapidity of my strokes quite well now (neither Photoshop nor Corel Painter can -- I sketch really fast), but there's still a difference in resolution, in ease of stumping and building up of tone. Still, we're working on that!
And I intend to do at least a new sketch a week, maybe even oftener. I need to get back in form, and that's what this new category in my blog is for: try to post a new sketch and an old one regularly.