Nicolai Fechin's drawings

Ever since I learned about Nicolai Fechin and his art, especially his drawings, I was truly inspired and have been trying to change my drawing style. To me, his drawing presents itself as a perfect combination of realism and abstraction, control and chaos. He does this artistic tight rope walking based on his hawk-eye observation and incredible drawing skills. He just nails the shapes with lines so sharp and decisive that they almost cut into the flesh, renders the flesh tones with exquisite subtlety, then, all of a sudden, he lets it go and leaves the rest of the drawing in a controlled chaos filled with expressive lines and tones that are as beautiful as the rest of the work. The way he makes the peripheral information seamlessly blend into the background is so effective, the background of his drawing stops being an empty space and starts to turn into some kind of latent drawing without anything actually drawn in it. I just find myself gawking at his work, speechless, sighing... One day, maybe one day, I might be able to draw like him (wishful thinking)...