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Richard Hawkins

Drawing people has always been an interest. “ What fascinates me is that there are billions of people and we are all different – individually we can adopt a million different stances, facial expressions and poses so you would think that drawing a person would be easy with lots of room for error yet a single dot of ink at the corner of the mouth on a drawing can change it from a likeness to an anyone.”

 

The trick is to leave out as much as possible – the imagination will then put in what has been left out – it’s better that way because the viewer’s imagination completes the painting in a much more satisfactory way than I ever could – piece of cake really – I only wish I could do it - but that’s what is so annoyingly fascinating.