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Published: 2009-05-08 19:42:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 669; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 3
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This is the first part of my timed exam in fine art AS Level. i have taken around 3 and half hours for this, i thank "Capt-Jack" for the helpful advice on using tortillians in pencil work, i used it for the first time in this piece at it was really good. The theme for the exam is "opulence", like wealth, glamour, bling, extravagance. So i need to incorpriate that into my exam. i'm going to add it to the background of my portrait.. like thoughts, anyone have a ideas what i can use?Related content
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thankyou. they arent the same photos i copied from but the same person haha. thanks
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Cool sp man. With the hair, think of it as different masses and not so much of the scratchy lines. It makes it look like you have hay for hair. When you are drawing hair, try to think of different chunks of it as organic shapes and try to simplify it more, then after that you go into more detail by erasing and keeping your darkest darks in there.
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ohh cool yeah i cant do hair very well. Well i cna i jsut dont have the patience and its difficult. I try to take my time its hard. i heard about the eraser methos for hair to get the light shimmers but this was a charcoal drawing. i mite try it on one of my new uploads watch out fo it
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This is good work, the use of blending stumps aids the progress of shading....
may I suggest the use of cottin balls and q-tips...For the softer tones...
keep up the talented work my friend
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ahh right yeah blending stumps kinda make lights bits dark. Thanks for tips i'll probabaly try it out soon. thanks for watch man
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Verry good drawing! you are recognizable and that's already a good point!
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Ah, this is nice ...great job on the eyes, and good shading really brings it to life
Saw the submitting date, guessing it's all done now? How'd it go?
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aww it were a bit of a rush a the end, its at college and i never got a final photogrpah of it, but i added space into the background with floating expensive objects into the bckground, things made out of the stars, i'll hopefully upload when i get a picture, watch out for it
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sounds good
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This one shows a definate improvement,the tortillion has really helped! I have an idea for you, you should get a load of mini photos of really famous preople and put the in the background, you then have the contrast between you and people with wealth, yet your portrait is bigger, make any sense? Good luck with the exam, art exams are the best part of doing AS levels! 
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Cool. there mint ideas... Hmm trying to think of who i could use .. Hmm i duno but i'll post my ideas and final piece. yeh art exams rock.. people groan at 8 hours.. but thats nowt really i love it. espiccially i had to do it in a A2 class which wer full of talent
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yea it was a bit of a shock after GCSE to go down to 8 hours but people forget that in art your not writing anything! I dropped art though after AS, too much work and 1 of my teachers was aweful!
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I can proper relate with you,my art teachers are crap. and theres loads crappy research which i hate. i just wana practice pencil drawing and stuff which i soo love
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Yea, i never got the chance to do much pencil drawing, apparently drawing from a photo isnt "proper" observation. So for my c/w i had to do something else and then when my teacher saw my drawings she was like "oh you should so do a drawing". I nearly murdered her! I did learn to screen print though, the only good part of my course!
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Yeah i know. life drawing is more natural.. i have lots of respect for life drawing portraits. thats well hard. My art teachers want me to carry on with art because they think i can do well. it's just. im not gona do it as a ocupations. just a hobby. so i dunno if its a waste of a A level. Hmm xx
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Yea, thats the same for me, its only a hobby!
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