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Published: 2011-07-22 04:53:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 897; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 14
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Description I can't really say anything about this...except for the fact that this was inspired by my experience of seeing a homeless musician playing love songs on an old Strat-type electric guitar...hoping that people will donate money to him.
As far as I can remember, I took a picture of him yesterday on my cellphone (he agreed to have a photo taken), and I used that photo as a basis for the pose of the character in this drawing.

Just today, I met the same person while I was waking past the cathedral where he usually prays, and I showed him a hand-drawn copy of this piece. He was so impressed, and he was so grateful to have an artwork based on his life as a low-class member of society.

Drawn on a piece of unused scratch paper. The pencil that I used here is a Mars Lumograph 4B pencil and an exam grade pencil.

I can't really see any style improvements in this piece. And some parts of it are worse than I expected D:

Lemme know what your thoughts are by writing a critique.


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Comments: 10

Karmadactyl [2011-07-22 22:30:24 +0000 UTC]

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This is simply wonderful and I could see why person who you basted if off liked it the shading is impressive. But I will agree witha.deviantart.net/avatars/b/l/b… " alt=" " title="blackXXraine"/> on the fact that the eyes seem a little too wide and face is a little small. Also the shoulders are maybe too far apart, and I would have to say that the speaker does seem a bit too big. But as far as the folds of the cloths go nicely done. They seem to me very natural. Also the guitar neck seems a little bit too wide on near the middle and bottom. The very top of the guitar neck seems fine just the bottom seems a bit off is all. Over all I would say it very impress and very well done.

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Seen-Artist [2011-08-12 13:54:05 +0000 UTC]

I loooove the shadowing but id agree with *princeoftennisfan about the eyes (if u want realism) personally i dont mind i think its nice personality of your own style to the piece. nice work!

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ZetaZero [2011-07-24 07:01:40 +0000 UTC]

Hi, I'm from 's Critique team.

This is a very nice drawing. I like how you added a lot of detail on the clothing and background. Good job on the hair too, the shading really made it appeal. The composition is very nice and gives off that homeless feeling. I think you can work on the guitar, being the secondary focus of the image, it lacks appealing features. Sure, it has a lot of lines and details, but it lacks depth like the rest of the picture. As thin as it is, you can add extra lines to its edges to make it feel more three dimensional. The right hand is well done, but the left's fingers are jagged and slightly irregular, try rounding the tips a bit more. His left hand also looks like he doesn't have a wrist. You can make this easier by pulling down his sleeve slightly, and revealing more of the wrist and the back of his hand. Overall, I think this is a very impressive and detailed drawing.

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VenomousBlaze In reply to ZetaZero [2011-07-24 10:00:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your honest opinions on this one!

I gotta admit that this didn't turn out quite well...but I'm glad that you like it!

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Charlene-Art [2011-07-24 06:48:53 +0000 UTC]

I really like the cross-hatching and the pose of this character. His slouch and the music do really make this impressive. My only suggestion would be to emphasise his slouch a bit more by making his back curved. At the moment it is very straight and stiff. I found this to be an excellent tutorial on poses in characters: [link]

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Bernouilli [2011-07-23 18:54:19 +0000 UTC]

I like the pose, they seem really natural and relaxed, but then their expression is one of disdain, so it makes an interesting conflict between their body language that draws the viewer in.

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Neoconvoy [2011-07-23 15:15:12 +0000 UTC]

I think the composition is good too. But you can expand the shading of the floor and wall to the right side too. Aside from some anatomy issues regarding the arms and face, the shading is nice, also, the work on the fabrics is good.

Work more on your cross-hatching, and the shapes of the objects.

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blackXXraine [2011-07-22 05:46:15 +0000 UTC]

i think the composition is decent i think everything could have shifted down a tad and to the left and the guitar case should be on the right side of the speaker

as for the drawing.. it's not bad i think his eye is too wide .. and face in general a bit small compared to his features
the speaker i think is also too big compared to him ..
i'm not that great w/ anatomy but from my observationssss
his left shoulder is too low or too far left .. since his angle seems to be shifted slightly .. the shoulder should be more to the right

i think the folds are pretty decent .. i'm not that great w/ folds so.. ; cant say too much about that

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VenomousBlaze In reply to blackXXraine [2011-07-22 05:53:39 +0000 UTC]

Oh...

I've also noticed the same bad points in this piece...and I do believe that I somewhat oversized the amplifier...

But I'm pretty happy with how the guitar turned out. Didn't know I can add lots of fine details to it...(though I messed up some details on the guitar's bridge and fretboard)

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blackXXraine In reply to VenomousBlaze [2011-07-22 05:56:11 +0000 UTC]

haha well oversizing is bound to happen but i think the amplifier was ... tooo exaggerated lol

haha its okay >w< if you see it already that means you can go in and fix it

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