You have your work cut out for you, but I appreciate that you want to make your gallery the best it can be. Others are content to haphazardly scan stuff and slap it online without much thought. You are a skilled and dedicated artist, I've enjoyed your company, and I apologize for not having yet really delved into your gallery and offering much feedback. I admit I'm more likely to click on colored thumbnails than black and white ones. Something about graphite just looks "unfinished" even if the drawing is actually well-crafted.

Well, I find it irritating when someone presents very small scans, or huge scans of tiny drawings that would look fine at a smaller scale, or when works are provided without some kind of signature to reference later to find the artist, or... well, so many potential peeves. I try to do better than that, and so it is annoying when I look at my own gallery and see these deficiencies there, when it would have been so simple to do it correctly the first time and for some reason I didn't.

Heh, well, you're under no obligation to scour my gallery, but it's nice when people do and leave their thoughts. I understand not looking more closely when most of the work is in black and white and in pencil of some kind. I just thoroughly enjoy graphite for it's incredibly flexible quality, able to provide all levels of shading and depth with a single tool (or two, if you're counting whatever sort of eraser one is using).

I realized this a bit more clearly the other day when I finished a drawing using about fifteen different ways to apply the graphite to the page. One of which was to be spattered on from a tortillion after dipping it in hand ground lead. After that I just said to myself "Yeah, this is just my medium."

Mind you, I have ample evidence that that I am very good with ink also, though I need to work with quill pens more.

Part of the reason I have so few color works is that I like to work in real medium whenever possible, and I've never really properly learned most color tools. I am weary to apply permanent color to a work I have already spent much effort on if I am to not like the result. But, it's a direction I must go, and so I will.

I am perfectly happy to color works digitally, and there will be more of that, as I bring in the old works, but part of me always feels that doing so is cheating somehow. And the feel of the result is just never the same.