When we dream as a child we think that everything is POSSIBLE! When we grow up, we got scared and more things become IMPOSSIBLE because ABC reasons... But my partner's in crime take on it is "EVERYTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT'S DONE" and I like it.
I always admired artist's who's portrait sketches looked alive just with few strokes. And sometimes for me sketch has more live than in the final painting. Like this gorgeous sketches of the Alvin Chong.
So when I asked Alan on Tattoo convention in Saigon what helped him to become such a great artist, his answer was short: "20 years of practice...". What to say i have a lot to go :)