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P.S. I've just noticed the addition to your website . . . looks great! To have managed well a subject of delicacy bodes well for your future drawings.
Start another soon, to take advantage of your newfound or resurgent interest in drawing. The materials handling can't really be explained, it has to develop under your own hand and eye, so do many drawings of many subjects.
I used to do a little mechanical drawing and, so, the exploded parts drawing in front of me now, from the repair manual for my snowblower, has its own fascination for me, but the 2-below start to the day's weather doesn't. I'd rather be sketching some indoor subject. (In The Practice & Science of Drawing, Harold Speed refers to "the long uphill road that separates mechanically accurate drawing from artistically accurate drawing." I cannot recommend too highly the close study of Speed's book. Though my copy is heavily highlighted and notated, it's probably time for me to take it up again.)
One of the most common remarks I hear from good painters is that they know they should be doing more sketching and drawing. It's difficult for paint to cover up a poor drawing, but a good draftsperson at work is evident in all the better paintings. (In Speed's Oil Painting Techniques and Materials, he writes, "It cannot be too much insisted upon that painting is drawing (form expression) with the added complication of tone and colour.")
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