Hand-drawn? Wow. Now that is what I call patience and talent. Deep respect.

thank you so much, lordi. I lost my mind doing this, but---like the monks who did the original---I used rulers and other old tools of drafting. (They had those tools all the way in the middle ages, which i was very surprised to hear.) If anyone had to make all those circles and straight lines without tools, omg. It was hard enough to do it WITH tools. i also used a loupe/lupe. It was like making a watch!

such amazing details in this Mark. this must have taken a long time to design. super duper my friend.

thanks so much Steve, as always.

And it took about 6 weeks to draw this. My eyes were seeing double when I was done. But I dreamt about those monks making these manuscripts centuries ago. It took me back centuries...Thanks again Steve, it's always appreciated.

Fantastic ! - Amazing ! - KUDOS !!!...

thank you so much, pc-artist, for your very kind comment.

Fantastic!!! Thank you for sharing!

thank you very much, roula. I much appreciate it. I need to visit your gallery, I was gone a lot when you were posting. I always loved your work...soon...

Great job on that one! I definitively haven't the patience, nor the skill with a pencil (and I made my best to learn, even with an aunt very talented). Very detailled too here

thanks again caty77...I didn't have the patience either, but I decided it was the best way to learn...imagine the monks who made these...day after day, working so small...as I mentioned to lordi, i used a watchmaker's loupe/lupe. I couldn't have done it otherwise. Thanks for your kind comment.

OMG, Mark! This is amazing, good sir! You have more patience than I would have ever dreamed to do this! I'd lose my mind (what's left of it) before I got halfway through it!

Magnificent work, Mark! The smooth and exact line-work are just off the scale!

you always make me feel it's totally worth it...thank you so much, Rod. But from what I see (and what you say) of your work, setting up renders and getting everything just right must take a ton of patience for you too. (I worked with poser once, lost my mind, and took a lonnnnng nap.) This took 6 weeks and my eyes sued me afterwards. (But I loved it. I learned a ton about what those monks did centuries ago. They did it for years.) Hope you and jo are healing, and I wish you both the best! A better fall ahead!

You are most welcome...

Concentration, meditation, just contemplation, that's, what I see beside the stunning drawing!

thank you so much, Nena. Very kind of you. I meditated a lot in my previous years, and it may have helped me with art like this. (If you've ever seen the originals---of these and other monastic art for the bible and prayer books ((books of hours))---you'll see how overwhelmingly detailed they were, and what concentration they had to make them. My copy, above, is just an excerpt of one page...)

Btw, I saw your personal web page, you have beautiful work there! I didn't see a way to comment, but I may go back in your rr gallery and leave some comments here and there. (You posted one earlier this year of a car with a calf in the back seat! I live in the US MIdwest---where we have lots of cows---and I've yet to see a calf inside a car before! That's a classic!)

The amount of detail in this drawing is fantastic. I can imagine an entire wall decorated like this, maybe in a lobby of big corporation. The kind of drawing that makes visitors stop and stare at it for several minutes before reporting to the reception desk.

thanks so much, wolf. The originals of this (and many others like it) are this image times 6. Pages of it. I'd imagine if they put them all over the walls of a corporate office lobby, the patrons would go into trances before they entered the elevators! The monks used rulers and other drafting tools, but they had to go batty doing these day after day. Take care, and I hope you're healed and will continue to heal. Great to see you here again!