Spotlight on ddixonart
Today we shine the Squidoo Spotlight on 100 Club Member ddixonart.
1. Please tell us about your beautiful pencil art and how you got started doing that?
In about 1999 I shared with online friends a pencil portrait I had done, and I was asked how much I would charge to draw someone. I really had no idea, because I had never done a drawing for money before, but I had been drawing something or painting something my whole life. We agreed on a price, and I ended up doing about 3 for that family. It just sort of grew.
I had been looking for something I could do from home, and had tried different home sales plans without much success. What I should have been doing was under my nose the whole time!
2. Which of your own lenses is your favorite, and why?
I really like my how to draw hair lens because I have received so many nice comments that it’s helped people. I never thought I could explain to someone how I draw anything, because I am self-taught and most of what I do is just intuitive – it just feels right, and I’ve just been doing it mainly from experimenting. So, it’s not official art-school how-to, but I hope someone can get something out of it.
3. Yodels or Twinkies?
I guess Twinkies, because I’ve never had Yodels – I’ve had Hostess Ding Dongs, is that the same thing? Send me a box of Yodels and I’ll do some research. I’ve never had deep-fried Twinkies either, so I think you better send a box of those too. Maybe to save on shipping, go ahead and send me a case of each, just don’t tell my doctor. You don’t know me, you never saw me.
You can learn more about ddixonart’s work by visiting:
Pencil Portrait Business Advice – a lensography of ddixonart’s pencil portrait business pages on Squidoo.
