We know that Degas did not try to draw everything. He rarely included buildings and architectural elements in his work. He never drew landscapes unless it involved a race track. However, he loved dancers, horses, portraits, the human figure...and he drew these subjects obsessively.
This week spend a little time thinking about those things that obsess you...that you love to look at.... Try looking through old photos or images from postcards that you've saved if that helps.
When you pinpoint those things that you can't take your eyes from, that turn you into the proverbial moth around a candle flame, then you will have found what you need to draw.
The next step, of course, is to draw those things as often as you can. Make photos and work from those if that seems fun for you. Your work as an artist begins with finding the lyrical, the beautiful or the just plain fascinating....what obsesses you....and using it in your work.
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