Anonymous asked: Hey dude! Glad to see you are back on tumblr. I have a favour, could you help me out a bit. I am a young guy that want to do good and draw everyday and sadly I wish I had the drive it seems you have to say that God put you here to draw. I bought "drawn to life" vol1 and I am wondering how do I APPLY what is in the book? Do I read the whole book first or will it just come to me? Thank man, I wish to just have HALF of your talent. That's all. I'm Anon = I'm shy

Well when I bought the book I read through it and if something Stanchfield said appealed to me I would highlight it or underline it. I would let it resignate within me for a while meaning I would write it down in my sketchbook and look for whatever he said in the people I sketched. So if he said ” avoid tangents” I would try to avoid them. If he said “Draw the whole figure, see it as a whole, and ignore the details” then thats what I did etc.  Personally its up to you how you decide to interpret the book…hope that helped Anon.