love it dude

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Thaaanks, taco!

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It's cool. I'm most fascinated by the use of color/medium. I'm gonna have to check out silverpoint.

It's interesting, I really notice the shape of the silhouette in this, as in the body type and how the clothing the person is wearing affects how that body looks.

Drawing from a photo is never as good as drawing from the real thing. But sometimes we have to make do. I've noticed that my drawings are different depending on what I was looking at - real life, photo, another drawing/painting, or a sculpture.

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Drawing from photos I think tends to yield a more precise and way less dynamic drawing. Also the fact that you can't wiggle your head around to look at things from different angles is a big downside to photo-ref.

Silverpoint is neat, it's very fine but also tends to be quite faint. Plus it oxidizes over time, so it changes color (same with gold/copperpoint).

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It's peculiar to look at that wall with no color, because that is what struck me most about it. Am glad that my photo inspired this in some way. Also, you're very good at drawing clothes.

-Lyndsey

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Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what to do with the wall. Silverpoint is so faint that I was afraid of overpowering the figures with a really vivid wall so instead I tried for a more faded, washed-out look, like maybe nobody had written on the wall in a while, and the weather had taken its toll.

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