Thank you for your feedback and compliments.

So sorry, but I didn't have my website set up to allow linking to individual images; so I don't know exactly which images you linked to on that page, but I think I can generally infer which you meant. I fixed it now so you can link to individual images by copying the URL that appears after clicking on an image.

You really stepped up your portrait game, Nathan! I see little use of ink and lines and a lot of thought. DaB really helped you with that I guess.

This simple black portrait really standed out to me. I feel so much power and strength in just a couple of brushtrokes!

I did those brush pen portraits in March and July as a series of 1 minutes portraits. I would draw a face 6 times in 6 mediums in 6 minutes. I used graphite, Prismacolor, ballpoint, an extra-fine nib fountain pen, a flex nib fountain pen, and then finally a brush pen. I got some cool results, but I can't get great results reliably yet. I did many and chose my favourites for this post.

I did enjoy a lot your automatic drawings, you would be a great tattoo artist if you decided to be.

I've come to love automatic drawing. I want to try to incorporate it into finished work. No plans to be a tattoo artist :)

This one was just genius. I should try if I had a bit more skill with portraits.

I don't know for sure which one you're referring to, but if you mean the exploratory self-portrait, I really want to do more like this. All it is is a series of studies of my face blended together into a final composition. I love the initial process of exploring a persons face, but I'm intimidated and a bit impatient and bored by the idea of doing a polished finished portrait; so I've decided that I prefer the idea of making the process the product. I encourage you to give it a try and be open to whatever results come. The first one I ever did was of Karl Kopinski while listening to an interview of him. I took screenshots of his face in interesting positions while he talked and drew them as I listened. I even drew his hands as part of that original. I loved how it came out, but I don't consider myself to be very good with portraits; they have to be so perfect, so precise, that I think you have to trace in the beginning or use a grid to get a good likeness; both of those processes bore me.

We each have our own strengths and interests; I am enamored by black ink on white paper. I can't get enough of it. I do love pencil and other mediums too. You have other strengths; lean into those and experiment/play.

That chicken will stick to my mind for some days hahahaa.

I love that chicken! XD

Quite a productive year you had! I'll try to be as productive as you were last year but this one haha.

I honestly don't feel I've been very productive artistically. I've dumped many hours into DAB and I've seen improvement, but as far as actually creating art, most of what I've shared seems like dabbling to me. I enjoyed making it, but I don't think I could put it in a portfolio. I want to get more serious this year about making portfolio-quality work that can represent me as a professional.

I wish you much success in your artistic & other life pursuits this year.