I agree with all what you said, and will just endorse that I think Master Lee and I may have a comparable "tentative" way of bringing our subjects into shape and being. It's like searching for the soul of the things (and in the best works, a draughtsperson is successful in this striving).

Nope, there's still another hour before I go. :)

"Searching for the soul of things" -- oh, Whiteling, I really see that in your work, and I see it in all the work I love best. And, yes, the best usually is "tentative", by which I mean approaching the subject indirectly (I don't mean the drawing style, which can be bold or delicate, modern or classical, but the approach to the subject: the soul of what is being depicted), or in some way that points to or gives the "scent" of or "suggests" the inner life of the subject, since that inner life, the soul, is not tangible and cannot really be rendered directly.

Thanks for the Bon Voyage!