Thank you!

Thank you! I still have this old sketchbook and it’s nice to go through it and see how I’ve improved.

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!

Aw, thanks for saying so!

This picture is badass.

Hell yeah! I’m currently sitting at work shaking an unopened bottle of gold metallic ink, itching to start something new…

Thank you! This was fun to do. I don’t usually do shading this way on a face, and I think it came out rather well!

Thank you! I get a lot of help from a really lovely reference photo to work from.

Your best yet.

Legs that go all the way up, or, from this perspective, down.

Oh that’s epic!

Haha! Yes!

I couldn’t believe how many bones there are in a neck…

<3 <3 <3 Thank you!

This drawing, indirectly, came from you. I wanted to draw a skeleton because I’m working through Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, which was another of your recommendations. It’s a marvellous book – thanks for the advice!

Love this! The sense of movement, the centre of gravity, the weight of her. Splendid pose.

Welcome back!

Thank you so much! They are indeed a fine pair of pants.

Thank you! Happy with this one.

Thank you! It’s so labour intensive and while I’m doing it I hate it – but it looks so good when it’s finished.

I popped a vertebra just looking at this one.

Priorities. I respect that.

Thanks!