Thank you so much for saying so!

Thank you! Although I can take no credit for the pose, Chickpea did all the work there.

I would like to know more.

The First Amendment.

I tried asking Claude to improve it but it kept giving me back the original photo telling me it was already perfect.

TREMBLE WEAKLING AT THE QUANTITY OF MY CHINS.

Thank you! Eight evenings well spent!

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

If this was a drawing someone showed me today and asked what to do next, I would say:

Slow down with your shading. Scribbling doesn't work. Use clean lines that send an unambiguous signal to the viewer.

Be bold. Inaccuracy looks bad, but hesitation looks worse.

Understand the lines you're drawing. Ask if the heel really does go back like that, if the front really is that shape. Understand where the line stops and ends, how it curves, where it fits between other lines.

And most important of all: do it again tomorrow!

Thank you so much! This is from a reference photo I took back in 2022. I tried drawing it then but couldn't make it work. It looks like I've got better!

Feathered things I won't be drawing for a while: penguins, parrots, pigeons, improvised flying escape machines, parakeets...

The background was teeeechnically painted, rather than drawn. Ink applied directly with a brush. Also, a high contrast filter does a lot of lifting when it comes to hiding brush strokes.

These are a true man's neck folds.

Ooh, sure! From life means there was a nude model right in front of me. 30 minutes means she lay very still in that position for 30 minutes while we drew her. Rather than ink her there, I made a careful anatomy sketch in pencil and took extensive notes on shading, then did the rest when I had more time at home.

I guess now he needs to retrain as a prompt engineer.

Thank you! And a lot of that is directly because of the book you recommended. It really taught me a lot!

Thanks! This was eight evenings -- by the end I was thoroughly sick of looking at it!

+1 received, woop woop!

Usually I take some in-progress photos, but this was A really quick one done in a single session so I didn't get round to it. But since you ask, here's some from another recent piece:

Thank you! I gave this to her and she liked it, and that made my day.