Talented and skilled aren't the same. Someone talented has some kind of gift - a natural affinity. They learn effortlessly. Someone who is skilled has struggled long enough to be good at something. They've made all the correct mistakes. You want to be both, but if you have to pick one, be skilled.

There's something interesting about working with different greys. Warm, cool, and neutral greys can all give such variance rendering, but are also so unified. I should do a whole body of work about chromatic greys.
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a little "mood board" I've doodled, because I can't think of anything to draw. A little cartoony, but it feels like a nice break from the "bigger" projects it feels like I'm always working on

Kind of love this one. She was very kind and cooperative.
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Kind of like the unexpected stretch happening with her face. She's a keeper.
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“Being in love in that way, being absolutely physically obsessed with someone, is like an illness. It’s like a disease, a disease so ghastly I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”

Francis Bacon
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I forget far too often that painting is supposed to be fun. Sometimes you should make things you want to make, for no other reason than that.
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