Chiaroscuro Drawing of a Male Model
charcoal on Canson Mi Teintes Paper, 4/11/07
Here is a two-session, 5½ hour drawing of a male model. There are two sides to paper like this, rough and smooth. I worked on the smooth side here and it was easy to make marks. I’m working on the rough side in my current drawing. I’ll talk about that in a future post.
On the topic of fortunes, this guy is making a killing.
Fortune
Pencil Sketch, 4/18/2007
He’s coming to speak at a work event that my office put together. We get to pay him something like $5 grand to talk for a couple of hours, point at a few PowerPoint slides, and sell his book. That $5 grand doesn’t include travel costs.
The trick, it seems, is to become an “expert” in a niche area that also happens to be vital to a large corporation’s business. It can even be an uninteresting area, so long as you are an expert.
You become an expert when you publish a book.
It will be easier if the book has a number in the title, and that number is the number of rules, commandments, habits, etc. that you have established for your niche. We all like numbered lists.
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