My first color drawing. It took my forever just to figure out how to do it.

The draft was very oversize so that more little details could be captured.

My first large format stippling drawing. I hadn't yet come to terms with big dots.

It just takes me a long time to figure out color.

I tried to make the very dark values very carefully rendered. With stippling that takes forever.

The blinds meant a lot of fussy time consuming detail. And those 210 hours occurred over 20 plus years.

Its very big and the smock on Marsha is very complicated.

One of the most detailed drawings I have ever done. The size of the dots is very small.

A fair amount of detail done in very small stippling. The parts without detail are dark - and that takes even longer.

It's big and the darker areas are time consuming. Complicated areas like the caning and the reflections took longer.

Essentially my first all stippling drawing. The texture of the phone booth took forever. Plus I was figuring it out as I was working. The first drawing for which I kept rigorous time worked records, as I couldn't believe it was taking that long.

The detail is very abstract and accounting for it at the draft stage was very difficult.

My first oversize marker drawing and the largest piece I have ever done.

It's a big piece but most of the time was in analyzing detail in the draft

I had no idea what I was doing. The first drawing of this type I had ever done.

I spent a lot of time chasing detail I could not always capture. Lots of ultra fine stippling applied wearing a jeweler's loop.

The source photo was vintage, deteriorating and hard to read. Also the weave of the Chanel suit was laborious.

Very fine stippling used to capture detail in dark values takes a long time.

At the time I thought I was saving time with large scale stippling but details like chains and chair weave still take time.

These are the biggest stippling dots I have ever used. Drying time and time for proper placement were the hold up.

The detail in the weeds and grass was very chaotic. Being very precise with the eyeglasses took some time as well.

The skirt is very long and very dark... and the stippling dots here were very small.

Figuring out how to do the hat and chest hair took a while.

It is a good size portrait and their tropical patterned clothing is full of detail.

Bits of the mirror took a while.

Some of the hair has very time consuming dark stippling. The lace took some finesse.

There is a lot of riotous pattern here. Even though there is no stippling areas like Brian's hair and the purse strap took a while.