Wow! this is great! You just keep getting better and better!

It is a lovely, ethereal drawing, that also exhibits your skill and technique well. You handle the medium beautifully and have created a moment in time drawing. re the camera - you said you were using a Cannon Power Shot?, as I think I mentioned to you in class, check out the settings, look for the ...

While lurking around my local factory outlet art store, Rossdale's, I found a graphite pencil I haven't used before, the Prismacolor Ebony 14420. A few test scribbles and I was hooked. This pencil is a very intense dark, somewhere around a 6 or 8 B. But the lead is not grainy or crunchy, but smooth ...

I guess that's the problem with cameras, they can only record what they see. [/i] Yes, but photographers (like this one) are artists in their own right and will manipulate an image, increasing saturation and contrast. Which is what I suspect has happened here. Your drawing is a faithful reproductio...

fight back against bad habit of leaving the empty holes of the eyes Its not a 'bad habit', many artists work this way. Personally, I have found that as eyes are so important to the overall image, if I leave them to last, and then stuff them up after ALL THAT FUR WORK, it is just devastating. So I l...

Nice work Pogs - you can see the love shining through, from her and from you. I like her smile.

And I can't help but feel that you have an enormous amount of fun creating these works. Coming up with the idea is fun. Playing around with it and sketching it is fun. Working out the composition, etc is fun. but the actual execution? eh. That can be somewhat tedious. Parts are fun, like the free f...

Another teaser for you Mike! Just completed last week, the final work in this exhibition 'Serpentis Maris'. enjoy!

and this is important - do have a smooth and hard surface directly under your paper. This is a key point. So many times I have to tell students this - don't draw on a bouncy, cushiony surface like a pad of paper! One way I teach to get darks is to layer and layer, alternating the stroke directions ...

Nice work. You have captured the shine of satin very well, and the geometry of ribbons too.

Have you considered doing a companion piece? an 'after' image of the same shoes after wear, showing how beat up the toes get? That could be interesting as a pair.