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Published: 2009-07-07 13:00:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 1525; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 29
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First submission since Feburary. The Merlin actor Colin Morgan's expression turns me on to drawing again. He can kill me casually with his smiles anytime.
Link to the reference pic
(edit: 2009-07-08: replaced with a better image)
---a little update about me
If you have noticed my lack of activity... The past few months have been a little confusing for me. Every day I arrive home exhausted after work. So I'm making small steps sorting out my real life.
This quick sketch does not say 'I'm back'. Rather it was the magic of Merlin (some day... I will do a proper portrait of Colin!) made me spend 2 hours or so on it.
Thanks for viewing! I hope you can also feel warm hearted seeing this picture!
Oh I have also enabled 'critiques'. But this quick drawing may not deserve careful critiques. Anyway I'm enabling it and hopefully I might get something... Thanks!
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The mark making of the pencil in this portrait is so brilliant that you have captured and conveyed a great likeness of the actor, especially through the features like the eyes, mouth and nose. The charm and slight playfulness of the actor is also shown, from the glint in the realistic and well drawn eyes to the very warm and open smile, which has been achieved through great depth of tones.
As far as any portrait goes, this is superb and the talent you show is astounding, and as far as i can tell the face has been focused on the most. This does work, to show his emotion and warmth, but perhaps more details and tones on the hair and neck/clothes would also bring more realism to it, as the hair does seem to fade in the background.
However, overall it's a brilliant piece of work that looks very realistic and photo like. An inspiration to me and i am sure, many other deviants. Astounding and excellent.
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Thanks for giving this a critique. "the charm and slight playfulness" is exactly what made me draw this.
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no problem, you deserve it! Anybody that can draw as beautifully will inspire me
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I love your sketchiness: how you can bring out the likeness of someone with just casual gestures is wonderful, let alone the personality. Also I like that the most detail is on his eyes and smile, which draws your eye. The farther you get from the 'important' stuff, the more the detail fades out. I think the sharpness of the lines of his jaw (his right) are perhaps too dark; they draw my eye a little more than they should, but his eyes and smile are so nicely done that I get pulled back away from it. I hope to see more work from you: as tired as you've been, it doesn't seem to have hurt your drawing skill.
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Thank you very much for the critque!
Looking back at this pic, I can see the eye-drawing right jaw. He does has some interesting structure in that part so I have spent some more strokes on it. Maybe I should've done the 'main' features with more elaboration... I'm glad that his nice smile pulls you back to the main '
I think your comment reflects how I usually draw portraits: Usually an interesting expression is my motivation to do a portrait, and when it comes to the actual drawing, I see the picture as a structure, where there is more intricate structure I spend more time on it.
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You're awesomeness.
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I think that there are a good many artists who can create good likenesses of faces, but to capture and convey such emotion, the exuberant joy and playfulness in his eyes and in his smile, you the artist obviously felt that same emotion, and conveyed it perfectly here, and it is addictive, because the viewer cannot help but identify with that and smile back. The focus is on the face, exactly where it should be, and the expressive hatch lines seem to radiate out that joy like an aura. Great art is captivating and subjective- we feel it. Wonderful piece!
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Thanks Loraine! You have said exactly what I feel about people portraits, and more than my skills (and time) allow me to convey.
I would have voted this unfair (not deserving five stars in every category, really!) but that would mean erasing this critique.
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I think you under-estimate your talent! I wasn't being nice, I was being honest, and rated it as I thought it deserved...really!
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yah,,the guy is merlin,,no doubt,,,,,,nice wow,,amazing
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he looks a bit like james franco in here. 
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Thanks for looking and commenting!
Why, I like James Franco too.
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Awww so cute!!
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Thank you, Sophie! I'm glad you like this. I find drawing relaxing. It should be more in my real life!
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The eyes are particularly good. A high degree of warmth and love is expressed in them - put there by yourself, I suspect. The lips and teeth are also good. And I think your technique has improved. You appear to be developing a better understanding of texture, shading and the forms and shapes that make up the human face. And you really are beginning to use the pencil...^^
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Thank you very much for the comment and the 
"A high degree of warmth and love is expressed in them - put there by yourself, I suspect."
I'm really happy that you see that in a mere drawing! (Although I think that's just what I saw in the reference photo which made me so want to draw it.
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Very Nice! This looks just like Colin Morgan! Merlin is an awsome show! Amazing work! ^^
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Thanks!! I'm glad that you like this!
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Thank you very much! I'm glad you like this.
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Hi Kate! Long time, no see! I gave you a critique
I think it takes just as much talent, skill and vision to render and convey a thought or feeling in as few lines, objects, colours, etc., as it does to render everything in the most minute detail. Sometimes too much detail, the viewer gets lost in it, and the central point is lost.
Never under estimate the power of a "sketch"
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Thank you very much for taking time to comment and critique!
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Great drawing 
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Wow thanks for the quick comment... and a fave!
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You're very welcome
He has a lovely curvy face, very sweet
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