Does she have other tattoos?

If not, I'm wondering if she's thinking a tattoo is a ten-minute job... or that she has no interest at all in how long it takes or what goes into it. You must have come across this when you've drawn commissioned pencil portraits - when the client had absolutely no ...

You wrote that so eloquently, Andy, that I could mentally follow your journey. Welcome to the world of creating your own world! ;)

Whilst I can't claim to have been on such an extended journey myself, I always leave a lot of room in my compositions for invention. The animals are tied down tight ...

A word of warning... if you're working your way through the videos, and you reach anything in the (Intermediate) Creative Series, such as 'Creating Textures Part 1', then....

WHOA!!! Without practice, that's too far.

Stay within the Basic Technique series. By all means, watch them all in sequence ...

I don't like pointing this out but... your taxidermy pheasant is looking a little... what's the word I'm looking for?... dead. :roll:

But on the other hand, your drawing is so very much alive. I can't decide why, but I can almost tell what it's thinking. And your treatment of the feathers and ...

I presume that if I indent with an 8H and then shade a darker value over the indented area, then this would achieve bright white hair due to the shadows of the marks being coated with a darker graphite. I have just tried this, and I am delighted with the results!

First, congratulations for ...

I'm really looking forward to this! We're surrounded by them - and Partridge. Beautiful birds when the males are in full plumage.

It's looking great! As I expected it to.
And I added it to your Page 2 post so we can all see it without going back a page.

Should I perfect what I have learned before moving on to the next section? Or, should I notice what I have to work on and move on to the next?


Move on. Definitely, move on.

First, if you try to perfect a particular technique, you'll be doing so in isolation. You need to know ALL the ...

I think you have two problems here:

First, the head: You're concentrating on detail and not noticing the three-dimensional shaping. Or, to put that another way, I think the three-dimensional form is visually more important than the texture, which can be suggested. The FORM is the first thing we ...

AND I insist on holding copyright to the work. If they want to purchase copyright for publishing then that is a whole new set of costs. These rules do tend to put off the 'oh, my sister wrote book you should illustrate' types.

Ditto! I should have mentioned that. Arguably, the copyright is worth ...