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The Gypsy Queen Extraordinaire

Those are same excellent words to go with the image. Colour always seems to add another element to your works, too. It's just that bit extra that makes something into "art"...

your level of detail in this is amazing. About how long did it take you to make this?

great style

hard to tell, worked on it here and there.
I've narrowed my work time to @least a week.

-i was disappointed in my details,
i posted because i thought the poem had merit.
So I'm pleased to see these compliments. -thanks

what does a week mean tho? you work on it for an hour a day or..

no short answer........

a week means 168 hours. I dont work straight thru, things change, I'm always re-balancing. After I finish a significant area, I literally just stare/meditate/comtemplate on what to do next, what to redo. Sometimes I'll take a 3day break and continue with fresh eyes. It's a proccess, it ends up about a week, that includes drawing time and structure theory.

I'm always working on multiple pieces, so I work here and there, whenever the mood strikes, or whenever I have time. So understand it is difficult to answer that question with a definite answer.

Specifically, this drawing was halfway way done, when i put it aside. I picked it up months later added some things, then put the last marks on it even later.

Every once in a while, when circumstances agree, I can work straight thru on one piece alone. Its easier to judge how much time it takes then, this wasnt one of those times. But with those pieces it seems it takes me about a week to be happy with a piece.

Of course simple drawings can take mere hours or minutes. The bigger works need time to grow on me. Most of my time goes into self-evaluation. If I get bored staring at a piece I know others will, so I add and add until I'm satisfied.

Sometimes I draw an outline that doesnt get attention right away. Lots of times outlines I didnt like at first show up later to wow me. Then I start to work on 'em, filling and darkening. Other times drawings hang in limbo for years. I've got pieces I've been working on since 2002, these arent big pieces, just detailed drawings that have been pushed aside. They range from 1%-99% complete. So when I do finish these, I dont think "years" is a good indicator of how much time went into them. It's a week or two @the most.

I'm human so I cant work straight thru unless I'm feeling it, mood is the biggest factor. Deadlines can mutate art, lots of cool shit, also lots of crap. I see this alot of this in comic books. Not all, but most take art granted. I hate to see well drawn pages in comics with ony 1 or 2 word boxes of story. The ratio is weak. Frank Miller does a good job, most artist/writers do. Special attention needs to be paid when someone else is writing besides the the artist. It depends on the end product, sometimes it works out, others not.

-now im going off subject....