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A quick pencil portrait of a friend...

Beautiful work.

Wow. That's real nice, Bryan.

How did you learn to draw?

Wow... great work.

On reading the title my first thought was:

Sarah, in Carbonite!

Nutso wrote:How did you learn to draw?

I always sketched a little bit as a kid, but about 10 years back, I took what we will call an "18-month legal vacation." With not much to do for a year and a half but read, write, and draw, I basically sat down and just forced myself to learn to create photo-realistic drawings. I did a lot of horse portraits and then moved onto humans. There's no formal training and I have what I would consider a pretty sloppy technique - just put down pencil and go back between shading and/or erasing until it looks out - I wouldn't quite call it the ideal way to be about it, and I couldn't draw a freehand stick figure without numerous retouches, but it seems to serve my purpose.

Pretty spectacular output no matter how you got there.

IanKennedy wrote:Pretty spectacular output no matter how you got there.

Thank you, sir!

Graham Kennedy wrote:Sarah, in Carbonite!

The river Temarc, in winter.

Sonic Glitch wrote:

Graham Kennedy wrote:Sarah, in Carbonite!

The river Temarc, in winter.

Bryan, his hands gray, his pencil sharp...