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akaLilith — From scratch: Dorian Gray WIP
Published: 2009-09-11 11:32:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 46654; Favourites: 615; Downloads: 44
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I'm going overseas next Sunday so I'll be away and inactive for almost 2 months. I hope I can finish this drawing before I go..When I saw Ben Barnes in Prince Caspian role I thought he's hot but since I'm not a fan of the movie I didn't feel like drawing him. I was so thrilled to know he got the leading role in the movie 'The picture of Dorian Gray', one of my fav gothic novels! Thought I always picture Dorian Gray in the book to be a pretty boy with blond hair I don't mind this darker, hotter version of him!
Now to the drawing.. I use this [link] as the ref.
My WIP is always friggin ugly, that's why I've never posted any of them!! I don't know how to finish one part or one section of a drawing at a time. I always start with the whole face and my drawing never look decent until I'm close to the finish line.
However, people keep asking me how do I start my drawing and how I do the shading and it's so hard to explain with words. So there you go..
And don't worry if the drawing look messy at this stage because that's how all of my drawings looked when I started them.
You can take this as my shading tutorial, if you find it useful..that's it..
Any question please feel free to ask.
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the face line and the eyes,nose line.how do you make it in perfect propotion? 
I always messed up in that things ._.
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Thank you so much for sharing these tutorials ..really helpful
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must try ^^ but i never did any dots or something i look at the pic and just draw well mine arent that great as yours but i only need 2 hours XD
Example [link] not ma besht
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Thank you so much for sharing these tutorials with us. They're a great help
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thanks for this! This is going to be really helpful!
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How do you blend smoothly and get a soft, realistic look? please reply.
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By tissue paper do mean like tissue paper you make fake flowers with or kleenex
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Thank u so mutch 4 share ur experience! It`s very helpful!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH! Very helpful! You're a great artist!
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Great work, and thank you.
I was wondering how to shade the face.
n_n
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may i ask how long it takes to measure preportions and stuff?
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There's a certain point of realism that you can get to until finally you end up of a grey scale replica of an image that already exists. While I applaud the quality of your work, I can't help but wonder at it's uses; If art gives us an out to express ourselves, why do people draw things with intense precision that have already been expressed by a cinematography crew? I don't know, I just find original artwork a whole lot more useful. Perhaps drawing a new character over a reference model makes more sense for me.
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aw dude I'm sorry you have to go overseas. Great work and resourceful advice though 
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Reference dots...I never in my life would have though of that. That's a really neat idea, I'll have to try it sometime 
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that's how my hair looks when i have finished! no, i'm kidding my lack of shading, but it's really hard for me. this tutorial has helped me a lot (theoretically) now, let's put it to practice, shall we? you art works are always great thanks for being such an inspiration to me
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This is a great tutorial but something I find I struggle with would be figuring out if the sketch is all porportioned correctly before shading.
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Great work, as with your other works
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Thanks so much! This helped me more than you would know!
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This is quite a good idea to show how you build your drawing up :clap; I'm going to try your style just to see how it works for me, thanks so much for sharing
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awesome..tissue paper...i never thought to use something like that. ty for sharing your work
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looking good so far ^_^
can't wait to see the final thing
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lol, this is pretty much what I do for shading. I 
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I love love love love love it! I know I already commented on this, but I tried out your techniques?! AMAZING! Tissue Paper?! MY NEW LOVE!
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I'm so happy to hear that. Thanks so much for the credit. I'm honoured!
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Oh this will look so cool! I wonder if you've considered leaving the pen out of it? Besides that it might distract from his face (love that expression...
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thank you so much! i'm glad to see your work before blending, because i always thought to follow the contour of ( in this case the face) the object. Now i see yours are all diagonal and at the end it seems also uncredible realistic. it gives me hope
also great to see your dot technique. maybe my scketches would be better and faster now
Hope to see m and learn more of you!
Thanx
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This is the ever ever GREATEST tutoril that I have ever seen in this place...
I hope there's more from you and only you... taking examples just like for detail project or hard edges showing the techniques to deal with it....
Thanks for that again
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hey, I'm only 15 and I love to work with portraits as well as you do, but I've always struggled doing hair..could you do a tutorial of that too?
check out my work!
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I've done that. Please check out my hair tutorials.
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this is really rather helpful! i'm always looking for ways to make my pencil drawings better and this definitely helps. cant wait to see the finished product!
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Looks great so far!
I do have a question (a silly one, at that xD): Where do you get blending sticks? I've been trying to find them, but I haven't been able to >.<
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I always got them from my local art supplies. I think anywhere that sell drawing or painting tools should have them.
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Alright, awesome. Thanks
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