Bert Monroy’s lynda.com Times Square course

[Andrew Moore]

I took this a few months ago. The attached “Andrew Into The Light” is a low res of my latest drawing. The other is an oil sketch by Jacob Jordaens which was the model.

While the company I work for has much less retouching than it once did, the course has had an immediate impact on this part of my job. Working through his materials and then going off on your own sharpens your technique and opens you to a wider array of solutions. Most of the stuff he’s showing you’re doing now. It’s that doing it on a barren canvas gives it a focus it never had when you were just manipulating photographs.

I’ve never drawn seriously before and at first the results I was getting were startling. But on reflection they seem much less so. I (and a number of you) have done this work for some time with some success. The visual and manual abilities were there all along. Just showing up and doing the work every day has developed the skill and the particular sort of concentration needed.

Always in the background with me has been a desire to draw. But how to go forward? Bert’s a connection between desire and deed. It’s a deeply pleasurable sometime even joyous activity.

[prwhite]

Andrew, Is there a question or a purpose for this post?

[Andrew Moore]

To recommend Bert's course to retouchers as a means to sharpen their technique, in a
surprising, pleasurable way.

[prwhite]

OK, Thanks for that info.

[J]

How is the original post not spam?

If I wrote a post that extolled the virtues of, for example, Heidelberg, and how I benefited from their product wouldn't that be considered spam?

Is it spam if I promote myself but not spam if I promote someone else?

J