Hey Captain Keys your damned talented aren't you! Those drawings are spot on in every detail, really good indeed. Well done to you!! & especially for managing to get Valentino to sign it for you too...the icing on the cake so to speak!

I learned to paint with trying it with watercolours first...that way you just build up the depth of colour you need. Also I played about with using coloured pencils but the ones that when you add water to they turn into paint...they are also a good way to introduce you into painting your pictures. Personally I like how you have done them in the basic pencil without the colours myself....I think they are great....and a lot more to my own taste in art...the stuff I do just doesn't rock my boat but it's the only way I can do them....plain old copying basically.

I really like the idea you had about adding the early images of Vale to the painting I'm trying to finish off. My only problem if finding a picture clear and big enough for me to be able to print off on my computer, so I can copy from them. All I have been able to find so far are from his early racing career are thumbnail sizes or ones that are really fuzzy and not very focused. So if you happen to have such images, please do share them so I can finish this bloody painting...it's starting to get on my nerves big time now!!

PS...keep up the good work with your pictures.....they are really good indeed.