Lunch Box Update

I finally had some time to kick out the lunch box track into the computer so I could give you this update of Mankind Triumphant progress.

Some of these Pencil Tests are mine and some are from my student workers at VCU.

Carbon Copies?

In 2003 I started my education at VCU School of the Arts and started to dabble in Charcoal and Pastels.
I'd go out on the net to photography sites and select a photo portrait to try an render with charcoal or pastels.

I enjoyed having high contrast figures in really dark settings.

At one point I took a class in Illustration, and showed my portfolio of portraits to my teacher.

She said all it meant was that I was a very talented copy machine...

I wonder how much money I paid just to have someone tell me that?