Drawing

“I often wish that I could bring my drawings to life in the way that some of my favourite artists do. I find that my lines become quite laboured and overworked. They don’t have the free flow of the lines like the pros. I found that using charcoal, which I’ve never used before, simply didn’t work with my normal style. You can see in this drawing that my lines are overdone, and I can get away with this a bit with pencil, but not with charcoal.”

“The first picture was a 30 minute pose, which I found very difficult because it’s been so long since my last class. So that was the first lesson learned – keep coming to class no matter what. [...] I tried to implement all the advice I had been given at once, which was overwhelming because my brain can barely handle one thing at a time, let alone 17 things, so I switched to focusing on one piece of advice at a time.”