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Published: 2011-07-02 17:33:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 2528; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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'Quickie' in a smaller size (A5). No need for skin texture, no need for stubble. Wanted to be away from that for a little.So most definitely not my best, but not the worst either. It just... Is, I suppose.
It scans really odd (and couldn't quite correct it either). Appears my scanner has more difficulty when the drawing is done on paper with some grain. Has anybody else experienced this?
I got bored with this vΓ©ry fast. Next drawing won't be a celeb for sure and probably not even a portrait.
- A5 Canson Sketch paper
- Derwent pencils 2H through 4B
- Mechanical pencils (0.5 and 0.3)
- Kneaded eraser, pencil eraser, Tombow eraser
- Tissue, cotton, blending stump
- White gel pen
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Thank you for your kind comment!
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Thanks!
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I'm impressed again and again to see how talented people are
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Thank you for that sweet comment!
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I was going to draw her just the other day. She is sexy.
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Michael Bolton. Lonely Island. YEAAAAH!
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The song "Jack Sparrow" by Lonely Island. He sings her name in it. I make a point to populate every picture I find of her with quotes from the song. I don't know why. Good picture though!
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Oh hehehe. I thought I was either being exceptionally dense, or you left a comment that was meant for a different picture!
I don't know the song, which is why.
Thank you!
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Thanks! And for the 
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Thank you very much! I appreciate hearing people like it, even though I'm not too content with it myself.
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You're more than welcome.
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And thanks for the
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Youre welcome
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Thank you!!
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Youre welcome
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Love the Eyes 
A5 is really hard cause its so tiny but u did a great job overall.
The getting bored part i understand 
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Thank you! I made it A5 on purpose, to be done faster. Although it has its drawbacks, I was glad I did, because I just got tired of staring at her face. Don't really want to see her anymore for the next 6 months or so, hahaha!
That's one thing I've assigned myself to do: Finish what you started. It helps to keep the brain focused, also helps to get better at achieving your goals faster (since you'll want to be done, but also don't want to have to put up a total piece of crap). Lastly, I want my gallery to be a true representation of my progress or of periods of lack thereof. Actually finishing stuff helps me in that way.
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Hahaha 
Don't think i'll get tired fast from looking at Keira.
Yes i guess u are right about the focus( a thing im not to good at as i always start multiple drawings )
Well i will finish them one day !! But normally i run into problems with drawing that i haven't learned or mastered yet and i think its a shame to ruin the good parts with stuff that im testing
Anyways good drawing for the size and boredom u had from it
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Everyone needs to work in their own way. What works for me, won't work for you, or vice versa.
Keira is pretty enough (and I was very happy to finally find a picture of her where she isn't doing that silly duck-face expression that seems to come so natural to her), but it was just the picture itself that was kind of 'flat' I suppose. Not too much contrast and whatnot. So against better judgment I picked a picture I shouldn't have in the first place.
Some lessons take a while to sink in.
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Great
If I can say sth... The thing that can make your drawings better is to stop blur. Maybe you can make a bit hatching.
But it's great
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Thank you dear! I always start with hatching, but find it difficult to leave it when I'm working with faces. Always have the desire to blend it out, make it smoother. You're probably right that leaving some of it would work well. It worked in my one work that isn't a portrait, after all...
Might be a good idea for me to step away from the faces for a bit, just to not get stuck in the same thing over and over again, with the same weaknesses and so on.
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No, I think it's good to draw what you like. And I see, that you like portraits. Don't stop
Well, my teacher of drawing classes sais that I can't blur. Always when I do it... she gets mad.
So, wish you luck in next drawings
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I think your teacher tries to keep you 'honest', which is a good thing. When the cross-hatching is still visible, it's a good way to observe good technique. 
To me it just fééls a little off in faces (while you're trying to match a photograph, that is), which doesn't make it true. It is ALWAYS good to explore different approaches and techniques, so your advice is very good!
No matter what I do, I'll do portraits again without a doubt. Just feel I need to venture out a bit, as to not get stuck in a rut and/or endless repetition of the same steps without actually getting any further.
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I think you'll get further and further because you'll get better in portraits and your hand will be more into drawing. (If you know what I mean)
I have a example here: this is Audrey: [link]
and this is monroe: [link]
The thing beteween these two is that the authors were bluring. It looks great, but from the art side it's terrible. I'm trying to avoid this. Here is an example of a great portrait in which the author didn't use this technique is this heath ledger: [link] (maybe she used bluring a bit on the hand, but lets don;t look at that
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Thanks for the links! I totally get what you mean. The cross-hatching without blending also makes a drawing look more 'drawn', if that makes sense.
There's so many styles to explore, as far as that goes! I'm sure you'll master this one if you set your mind to it!
I think I'll get better too, but I'm sort of impatient about it. The progression went very fast at first and now I'm at sort of a stand-still, I feel. I think it's relatively normal for stuff like that to happen in stints. I'll just have to be patient and keep practicing until the next 'jump'.
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I have the same thing. The last jump was here, when I drew this: [link] and then that: [link] . This as my biggest jump.
Yeah, I have to practice to.
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I can actually imagine that it's quite common. Sometimes it just takes a while before the brain 'clicks' and finally truly 'gets' something, although you may have been practicing that thing for months.
What we both need to practice besides drawing I think, is patience.
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Yeah, patience... sometimes I just get mad if something isn't like I want it to be. Well, nobody told that drawing is easy. When I'm going to get through the worst things it'll be better. It'll be better when I'm goig to draw sth from my imagination. I hope it's going to be soon.
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A perfect likeness. It looks quite well done, despite your scanner. I love your attention to detail around the eyes- with the lashes, the eyebrows, the fine dots just beside the nose. They certainly are the main focus!
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Thanks very much! I'm very happy the focus that I tried to create actually successfully draws the attention!
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My scanner also like to do such things and especially on the paper with some grain as you said. So I try to edit it in the photoshop.))
What about this drawing: you did a very good job.)) I know that A5 isn't easy to work on, because it doesn't allow to make a lot of details.
But I think that her fingers look a bit weird, maybe you could add some small wrinkles on them to look more realistic.))
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Glad you recognize the problem of grainier paper on scanners! It's pretty annoying, because it also makes the shading look that much rougher and there's only so much you can correct afterwards.
I know the drawing leaves a lot to be desired. I was feeling uninspired through the whole thing and rushed more than I should. Thanks for saying I did a good job anyway.
I very much agree the hand looks weird! I've spent a lot of time there checking the proportions again and again, to see if I had made mistakes! As far as I can tell, thΓ‘t should be correct. I'm guessing you're spot on about it missing wrinkles and such details, and looking weird because of that.
Same mistake as with the Kiefer one (as I'd already started this one before our whole exchange about how pictures that aren't in focus everywhere evenly, should generally be avoided and such?)... Should have made the whole hand more 'blurry' to have it fit better. Or more detailed like you said.
And so we keep on learning...
Thanks once again for the useful advice!
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Scanners have it to themselves that they like making drawings look worse.
I am jealous (in a good way!) of your ability to draw people that look exactly as pictured.
Good job with her hair - there isn't too much of it at the drawing but they are great. Eyelids also are beautifully done!
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I cropped the image a little so that I wouldn't have to do too much hair, hahaha! Glad you like the bit that's there! And the eyelids, too, because I wanted the eyes to be the most important bit of this drawing.
Getting a likeness is all in the grid. I couldn't do this free-hand. I tend to also make my grid even smaller, or finer, around the important features, to get them as close as possible. I actually made a looser grid this time, to see if I could, but quickly saw I definitely needed the smaller squares.
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I think I have once tried to draw with a grid but I don't really like it. I always draw free-hand because I would like to be able to draw not from pictures, just from my mind one day, so I practise it.
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Yup, drawing free-hand is very practice. I don't grid my doodles either (when I try do draw from my own imagination).
When it comes to trying to get a very good likeness though, a grid is the way that works best for me.
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So I hope it will help me to develop my drawing skills.
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You and me both, hahaha!
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