My lover
 

Soon to be my wife. Nice?

This is a pastel.:crazy:

Umm, YEAH that's nice! :) If that's really what she looks like, you
have a nice looking soon-to-be wife on your hands there :P...







Lucky bastard.

thats cool. i always hated pastels. Your obviously pretty fricken good at em.

Very nice!

The lighting is very well rendered and I especially like the detail around the hip and stomach.

As a side not, I suppose the thread title needs a NSFW added to it.

fine ar tis SFW FYI unless you work in an office full fo nazis.. lol

nice pastel work lewis ^_^

Me no comprende. NSFW???

Thanks for all the nice words, folks. And yes, she does look like this and yes, she is that beautiful, and yes, I am a lucky bastard!

NSFW - not suitable for work ;)

amazing job there Lewis! Truly impressive!

so erhh..... how much for a nude drawing?? :D I've always liked to have one of myself but I can't draw and model at the same time :(

Thanks Nancy. I do a few a year. Let's talk on a pm?

Very nice work!

That's incredible. Your soon-to-be wife is very lucky to have such a talented fiance.

That's lovely. Thanks. Funnily enough, I feel the same way about her!

wow that is great... such an amazing amount of talent in these boards.

Wow....you are very good!!!!!!!!!!
I wish my boyfirend had talent like that!!!!!
Good job, she looks good too.

"draw me in this...in only this"

...oh God, i'm a horrible person. That's a really lovely piece of work there. kudos.

Ooh, very nice. Me next, I'll get you a billboard to do it on.

Yeahhhhhhhhh great. Send me photos folks. Î'll do you all - but after my honeymoon

woah, she's got a gorgeous body.

I'm actually interested in your technique there... do you start with an outsline of the body and fill in color later? or do you just start with some random color and fix it up later?

Thanks. I totally agree!

The process is one of (forgive the inadequacy of the language here, and no double meanings intended!) feeling my way around the body. If you start with an outline, that is too constrictive, and often inaccurate. So I start with areas of colour that gradually become more measured as the three-dimensional nature of the body becomes understood. I have to be careful not to 'fix' anything too soon, because that stops the energy growing. When you are dealing with a live person, it's most rewarding when the 'experience' of that person takes over from the technique you're trying to apply. To me, technique is the problem. If you can avoid it, and find a way to see with 'a beginner's eyes' each time you draw, then you can experience the magic.

If this all sounds like pretentious nonsense, I'm sorry, but there aren't really words to describe what is fundamentally an internal experience.

Do you draw then?