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No cheat codes required Tanya Combrinck finds out exactly what it takes to make the leap from burgeoning student to game-shaping art director

Winner of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2023, Wendy Barratt is fascinated by faces and figures, and after a career in graphic design, now paints full-time in her studio in East Sussex. Wendy

As someone who used to draw the inner workings of machinery for a living, I was always destined to prefer the precision of coloured pencils over more expressive media. Though I enjoy both, it is the r