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I have to agree with Karin on this one.
I spent 12 years in art schools, from a wonderful high school art teacher, private lessons, Georgia Tech, and LSU. I have multiple art degrees and I absolutely love to draw. I always have. Since I was two years old I would draw everything and everyone. And just to toot my own horn so to speak, I am very good at it.
I would study my father's vet books on animal muscle and bone structure and do countless drawings of our horses and dogs and foxes and any other animals my father had at the time.
But right now it is easier and faster for me to trace my drawings under my paintings than to draw them, especially my large ones.
I also run transparency acetate through my ink jet printer and lay it over my paintings to double check facial features and hand details.
Art for art's sake is a wonderful thing, but portraiture is a business for me and with two small children I need all of the extra time I can get. To me drawing isn't a chore. It is a luxury. And since I am currently driving a Dodge minivan and not a Lexus, I can't afford it right now.
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