Whoa that is amazing!! And it looks so good!

That is huge! It must have taken weeks or months to create this. Well worth the time you put into it!

I think about twenty five man-hours went into it over ten days or so. So yes, a lot of work, and I was a little nervous starting it as the previous drawing that size had disappointed me in some ways.

The part that was the most work was actually the microscopic skin details, much of which has not come out in the photos. You get hints of it but face to face with the drawing you can see a lot more. Such tiny details should be subtle so that they effectively vanish when the drawing is viewed from a distance, and the details just appear as shading on the skin. I am pleased to say this is the first drawing where I managed that balance between the details and the shading.

This one also took about half the time the previous A2 drawing needed, so that was another reason to be pleased.

I started with a couple of A4 drawings of eyes and have progressed through A3 and A2 up to the A1 picture I am currently working on. A1 really is huge, of course it's twice the size of A2. I can't yet go bigger because my drawing board won't take paper bigger than A1, but eventually I hope to get a board and easel suitable for images up to about six feet wide. I have 32ft roll of 5ft wide paper waiting...

Thanks for the comment. Break out that pencil!

looks really good, you should have made the zoom bigger so that we could appreciate the quality more

This is a lovely way to represent the scale of the drawing. I was very interested in your discussion of how you get your reference photos. In my case, I just use hastily taken cell phone snapshots 😜 They are not special at all, but I hope that they become special when I draw them.

1A masterpiece! - What a detail, and only with pencils.

Very cool!

Love it, specially the iris texture, can't imagine the hours it took to draw that part. My respect and hats out to you!