Currently everything I do needs a base picture for me to rely on. I'm not at the stage where I can pull stuff up outta my head. If I was, hell, you'd need a big ass book for it all. I need to learn more about stuff like that for it to work. As it stands, I figure if in the meantime I practice on images, I can hone copying images while simultaneously learning about various forms of shading and all that. That way, when the time comes that I finally find a way to not only practice and learn how to do entire pictures, especially those centered around anatomy of things and perspective, I will have honed my skills at taking an image and putting it onto paper. And as for my only grey, black, and white works, I figure if I can learn my way around all the various shadings and workings of black and white, when I finally step into the world of colour, it will be that much less of a hard step. As for paper, believe me, I know I need to ditch the lined paper. But as it stands it's all I really have. There's one store in town that sells paper of any kind, and it being such a backwater place like hell they'd ever get art supplies. They don't even have blank printer paper. Even that would be a step up. But there's more to it than just that. I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some blank paper. But these notebooks are more than that. They're a stepping stone. When every last page is filled with whatever I chose to fill them with, and I feel that I can create something worthy of going onto a piece of paper meant for such things, without wasting the material, then I'll move on. In the meantime, washed out pieces of practice work and oddly glaring blue lines it is.