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I would like to ask Marvin what use he actually sees in this forum, apart from using it as a promotional tool for his own workshops. (I know you mean it as well-intended good advice, but still...)
When I read the recent posts of Marvin and Sharon it seems to me you are in a similar situation. First you both became very succesful illustrators, and as a reaction to that, you seem to overreact a little. 'Real' painting instead of 'copying photographs'... Portrait-painting isn't easy, but hearing you both being so serious one could easily lose the fun it also should be. It becomes pretentious this way, I'm sorry to say.
I read the two last posts Sharon made in the painting critiques and the pastel critiques section. The only thing you seem to do now is direct someone who shows a drawing or a painting and a photographic reference to this thread in which you point out your step-by-step-plan. It seems like you decided that you do not accept people's effort to create something based on photographic reference?
Peter
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