Visitors' poll

I very much appreciate the point made respect the jury process regards people posting who do not have basic drawing skills within their grasp and hence the policy. However I think the Forum misses a trick. Steven Sweeney's sight-size method is the first repeatable stepped process, in my view of all the library books, etc. I've seen over the years, that gets even close to taking a structured studied approach to drawing and the articles on tone are fantastic. That article has inspired me to take a path to achieving proficiency of that technique and Steven's encouragement in his language has helped to do that as I know it has for others. I also hear that passion in Mischa's dialogue. So your site can help people who are not pros achieve their ambitions. I'm not sure that I agree with the entry criteria of seriously pursuing a career in portraiture, surely the gift you share is for helping those of sufficient interest to progress their ambitions in portraiture if simply to achieve a high quality even as a semi-pro or indeed amateur. Whilst that sounds a little negative I can assure you that I have a great deal of pleasure and value from this site regardless of the policies and I can only thank the membership for sharing as they do and spending the time that they do doing that. I do intend to submit in the near future and hope that I am accepted in my desire to improve my artistic skills for the pleasure of others and indeed earn money from it and give up the day job!

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Robert Walker