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Published: 2008-02-12 00:33:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 6932; Favourites: 187; Downloads: 0
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Description
He wants your brain....._______________
Link to reference drawing:
LINK
Materials used:
0.5 mechanical pencil, and a sheet of plain printer paper
No smudging used (I don't have one of those smudge stick things, so I just made a lot of really small lines for the shading
)Contrast added using PS7
I started this two weeks ago... but with homework and stuff I wasn't working on it much, so It probably took me about 4-6 hours..
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Comments: 152
I love his eyes! And you did an excellent job on the details! I was reading all the comments: if you haven't gone to the art store yet then I highly recommend it. Get a good set of pencils (I like Derwent pencils in the medium range) that have the H all the way to the 9B pencils for a good range of light to dark shading capabilities. And a vinyl eraser and a kneaded eraser are must haves. The smudge sticks are OK but I actually prefer to use kleenex. And the piece de resistance is Bristol Board. It is soooo smooth and a dream to work on.
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Thank you!
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You're very welcome! Oh, you'll love the different pencils. 9B is the softest and darkest.....VERY dark. And the H series are lighest and can do super fine detail work. You'll be addicted, I promise.
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i cant believe i didnt fav this yet
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nice job on the hair! impressive! (hair are still my own personal achilles heal 
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Thank you very much!
Your style seems pretty different from mine, but a good technique with hair I use, is to use your eraser a lot combined with a bunch of fine lines, the eraser really helps with depth and highlights while keeping a slight remnant of the strands of hair that were previously there.
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yeah, I am starting to slowly get a hang of it. I don't really have a technique. I copy what I see. none of the drawings I have done were drawn form my imagination. I ALWAYS use a reference pic! so all I do is a bit of shading after I get the outlines done... and hair is more difficult than just plain shading, cuz of the texture, which is why I always had a hard time with it...
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Wow, I don't really think I am qualified to give a critique of something so amazing.
It's beyond any I could ever fathom doing.
The only thing I can say is that I think the right nostril is a bit lop-sided....
Keep stuff like this up! It's truly amazing.
My deepest apologies on my delayed response to your thumbshare post. Life goes on outside of the DA world; sometimes more than I want it to...
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No problem on the delay 
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I had to do a double take on that link... LOL... I've been watching Heroes for a while now and I must say i never noticed that...
Weird...
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LOL, yeah I didn't even realize it until I was about a quarter of the way through drawing it ha ha.
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Thank you
you prefer the B&W version huh...
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Yeah, I sometimes find them to be more intense than if they had colour.
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yep, yep. 
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Your secret is safe with me
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Incredible detail- I'm stunned!
The hair is especially amazing. I really like the light you've managed to recreate in the eyes- it's just perfect!
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The freaking amazing part is the hair ....
Well done dude
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I kind of like the colorless one better. But they are both amazingly..........well........amazing!!!
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Thanks man!! Yeah I know what you mean... lol, I can't decide between them
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An excellent likeness! He does have a bit of a scary stare though. XD
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LOL, thanks!
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I love it! The details are awesome o.O Excellent work on it!
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That is amazing dude, I wish i could draw faces like that... at the moment, faces are my weakness. :S
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Thanks man! you'll get there
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thats one awesome pencil pic right there
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Wow, his nose really is crooked like that... Zack Quinto is still nearly perfect to me. 
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Thank you So much
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This is really good o.o Wow wow wow o.o the details, lookit the details, so awesome
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Is it wrong to find him so sexy? Even with the whole evil thing?
Well done, I especially like the depths you achieved with his eyes, though you might want to go in gently with a vinyl eraser and get some bright highlights in to gel with the background.
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LOL.. I guess not?
Thanks
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Most definitely!
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ah, that looks so good. the only thind i'd say that you should work on is putting a little more blakc in it, the peice is too grey, so you sould work on putting in some of "the darkest darks and the whitest whites" (as my art teacher puts it 
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Thanks! yeah I know some areas should be darker and lighter, but it's hard when your only using one type of pencil. Thanks for commenting
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