I have had a break from drawing the illumination for a few days, because I was seeing acanthus whenever I closed my eyes.

Here's the next bit of drawing

Doing the drawing as "rough" (then to be traced onto the final piece) is a good idea for me I think. I'm a bit of a Linus when it comes to drawing. Either using a soft pencil, which smudges everywhere, or a harder one which leaves impressions of any corrections. It takes me about 4 attempts to draw any one element, so there is a lot of 'working' going on. I'm not much of a draw-er.