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Thank you Donna! I used to really struggle with drawing util I was switched onto the idea of using coloured paper. I certainly adds more atmosphere to the work.

I love the effect, it's nice too, digitally especially to lay some colour down and 'draw' with an erasure. You have such command of the human form, I love it.

Yes, sometimes removing something adds more to a composition than adding. As they say in design, less is more. I keep practicing with the human form, as everybody is an expert; we all look at it every day. Thus if anything is off in a drawing or painting, even a layman can pick it, even if they can't say exactly what. So criticism comes thick and fast when rendering the human figure and many artists choose not to attempt portray it realistically.