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"Portrait of an Emperor: Calthonan III"
November 15th, 2009
6-8 Hours Maybe, maybe more
Pastel or Chalk, Pencils, and finger smudging

I did this as my weekend project for AP art (still working on another watercolor, I hope to have that up here hopefully within a few days). One of the guys in my class did two REALLY cool pictures with chalk so I wanted to try it out too and see what I could do with it. I think these are pastels, but I'm not really sure of the difference. In any case, I'm very pleased with how this picture turned out. I had a lot of trouble about his eyes. In fact, I had to completely redo his face at one point because everything was aggravating me far too much. I redid his eyes (they were the perfect color too! ) and am happy with the result. Before he had this dead-pan stare, like a deer in the headlights look that annoyed me to no end. That got fixed, obviously. Two things that I wanted to do for his eyes, 1.) I wanted them to not be a gaping dumb stare. 2.) I wanted the eyes to follow whereever you went. Hopefully I've achieved both of those. I like how vivid his eyes are. That took me awhile to do. Another thing as well, his cloak was kind of ridiculous to do, mostly because I had no reds. So what you see here is a mixture of hot pink, electric blue and earthy-orange. And some black and whites for highlights as well.

Calthonan is one of my favorite characters, probably the one most central to the plot and one who is becoming more facinating each day to me. More than most of my other characters, he has been making leaps and bounds in his character development, and this just inside of my head. I did another portrait of him here: [link] His bride-to-be is the Princess Atherial who I drew here: [link] Lord Mornai and Lady Rhianna are two of his cousins on his mother's side (they're the children of her sister).

By the way, the bottom is a little blurry probably because I had to take a photograph of the picture simply because it's much too big for my scanner. And the general blurriness all around.

Description
"Portrait of an Emperor: Calthonan III"
November 15th, 2009
6-8 Hours Maybe, maybe more
Pastel or Chalk, Pencils, and finger smudging

I did this as my weekend project for AP art (still working on another watercolor, I hope to have that up here hopefully within a few days). One of the guys in my class did two REALLY cool pictures with chalk so I wanted to try it out too and see what I could do with it. I think these are pastels, but I'm not really sure of the difference. In any case, I'm very pleased with how this picture turned out. I had a lot of trouble about his eyes. In fact, I had to completely redo his face at one point because everything was aggravating me far too much. I redid his eyes (they were the perfect color too! ) and am happy with the result. Before he had this dead-pan stare, like a deer in the headlights look that annoyed me to no end. That got fixed, obviously. Two things that I wanted to do for his eyes, 1.) I wanted them to not be a gaping dumb stare. 2.) I wanted the eyes to follow whereever you went. Hopefully I've achieved both of those. I like how vivid his eyes are. That took me awhile to do. Another thing as well, his cloak was kind of ridiculous to do, mostly because I had no reds. So what you see here is a mixture of hot pink, electric blue and earthy-orange. And some black and whites for highlights as well.

Calthonan is one of my favorite characters, probably the one most central to the plot and one who is becoming more facinating each day to me. More than most of my other characters, he has been making leaps and bounds in his character development, and this just inside of my head. I did another portrait of him here: [link] His bride-to-be is the Princess Atherial who I drew here: [link] Lord Mornai and Lady Rhianna are two of his cousins on his mother's side (they're the children of her sister).

By the way, the bottom is a little blurry probably because I had to take a photograph of the picture simply because it's much too big for my scanner. And the general blurriness all around.