Surgery was a success. After a couple painful days of recovery, he is now doing fine. Thank you for asking.
That's a good approach although I don't have a particular story in mind like you do (and I applaud you for this). I may just have to think about the context of a drawing next time I tackle a perspective study - should make things more interesting.
I try to do this but for some reason I got lazy with the Frans Hals study, that was my bad and thanks for calling me out on this.
Lol, I am glad you like my cute little subjects.
I can't thank you for going to such great lengths to help me out with my shading skills. I just finished watching your video and I got to see you using clipping and multiple layers. Btw, you may have used these tools on the earlier demo you shared with me (the one about the apple) but I frankly I did not pay much attention as I was unaware of them atm. Anyhow, I also took note of how you use different brushes to achieve different results. I usually just stick to one brush, a hard square brush, since I don't know much about other brushes. After watching your video, I definitely will have to branch out and use soft brushes, air brushes, and hard round brushes (the last of which I just started using). Another thing that stood out to me is how you focused solely on the shading aspect of the painting and not so much on proportions as evidenced by the fact you traced the drawing. I believe you did this either as a time-cutting measure or because you wanted to show me that I can focus on studying just one thing at a time, in this case shading, therefore, being more effective, but please correct if I'm wrong. This whole video has been very insightful and I hope to soon put what I have learned from you into practice.