It is not. It was drawn freehand using a dip pen and an inkwell, over pencil outlines, from a photo.

Thank you! I’ve never been able to do that whole “planes of the face” thing, so I thought I’d half-try it here. It went… okay. Happy overall!

Love it!

Do it! And post the results!

Totally! I was in Rome last week and my photos are 90% statue-related. And the rest are exquisitely-dressed Italians. My drawing references are sorted for a while!

Thank you!

Thank you! This was fairly cheap brown recycled paper, drawn with black fineliner and I think I white gel pen. It came out looking pretty decent!

Thanks!

Thanks! This position is from a game I played a while back. I was white. It did not go well for me.

My pleasure! Always happy to post here.

What an absolutely wonderful thing to read. Thank you so much.

Thank you!

Thank you! I had fun with this one.

Just put them anywhere, it’s not like anyone knows how to play one of these things…

What a cool idea! Nicely done!

Thanks!

Thank you so much for saying so! In moments of weakness drawing these endless parallel lines, I sometimes wish I worked in digital media so I could just copy-paste the whole thing. Comments like this remind me why I don’t!

Thank you!

Thank you! And for this headache, I’m thinking ibuprofen just won’t cut it.

Thanks! Much of my life seems to be spent drawing closely spaced parallel lines these days…