Hi friends, this week I’ll be archiving The Society. I'm simplifying my life and fully focusing on my Coaching Program community. Right now they are thriving and deserve my full attention. My vision for this group was always bigger than image sharing. I wanted to build a collaborative community with me, other Pros, and members who wanted to break out of the social media paradigm of vanity, likes and follows. I wanted to create a community built on conversations and relationships, online and offline. To keep that vision alive would require many hours of teaching, support, and collaboration, and right now, I simply don’t have the time (or resources) to sustain it. I plan to have an oil painting focused community soon. That is the next stage in my evolution so I will dedicate my hours and labor to this new chapter in my life. If you are interested in that, please follow me on my new website (I will start writing beautiful articles there again) and join my free email list. That is where I will do my teaching and guiding for now. Thank you for being part of this. Skool is still in it's infancy, but I know it will become as mainstream as Facebook. As censorship of nude figurative art and beautiful realism as a whole continues to rise, the mass of artists like me will eventually migrate here. So thank you for being a pioneer with me. To those who resonate with me and align with my mission to build a sanctuary for beauty online I hope to meet you again. Much love and peace be with you until we meet again.❤️🤝

Earlier this week I spent a couple of hours drawing the great Pete Postlethwaite. Few actors, I think, had a face so full of character. Every line seems to tell a story.

Had an enjoyable time following Chris's demo. It was my first drawing completed using a mechanical pencil. Chris, thank you so much for the demo!

Been playing a bit with using China markers / grease pencils to render with. They feel like crayons. Since they're made to draw on anything they combine well with other mediums like color pencil. You can sharpen them but they're really not well suited for really sharp details; color pencil on top takes care of that though! They're not smudgy, you can't push them around like charcoal & not messy at all.