A portrait career only from live sittings.

[Richard Bingham]

Not true in my case. The camera hadn't been invented yet when I learned to draw . . . (joke!)

Truth is, the focus of my early art education was to work entirely from the life .

[Michael Georges]

On the other foot, I am probably the poster child for learning to paint from photos exclusively and frankly, much to my detriment even to this day. I was already painting portraits professionally before I attended my first life drawing session.

It's a bit like being a one-handed boxer...