You've put a lot of work into both this tutorial and the actual pic. No wonder your drawings are so good!

Thanks!

The thing is that at some point it gets to be internalised like any good martial art - it's not this particularly conscious process. The psychologist Mihaly Czikszenmihalyi talks a lot about this idea as flow. When I'm really in a groove, everything comes out really well and I'm only sort of kinda consciously thinking about it. But even though that's a good thing, it makes it kind of hard to go back and try and explain what's going on, if that makes sense?

Oh, yes, that makes perfect sense. It's something that occasionally happens when I'm writing, although not as often as I'd like!