Roy.

The man was/is a legend for many reasons. He cured my horrendous A level Art disease. Sunsets are nice. As is the male figure. Yet those two objects combined created a hell of alot of mediocre fairly lacking but pretty sunsets. with male backs on them. In acrylic.
ANYWAY. Though foundation did me well I was still horrendously behind in terms of developing something to be proud of. BUT. One book by recommendation of Roy...
Perhaps a slight cliché this book. But a damn good one. It marked the beginning of an obsession in books such as this. Created a level that I set to aspire to. A first hint of aspiration. Wanna get some of my work into one of these bad bois. Good old Roy. He also managed to scare me a little into keeping on top of practical skills, classic drawing, painting, so the art lived on. Perhaps explains my total incompetence and disregard of using technology, plus my love of all things artist like.