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Published: 2007-09-26 21:01:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 25553; Favourites: 1281; Downloads: 4
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Pencil on paper.
See my drawing and painting videos here. www.youtube.com/channel/UCwIFg…
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Let's see, I can give you few tips.
1. It is very important what kind of paper you use. I haven't figure out how to do good looking drawings on bad papers. My favor 2 are, smooth bristol board, and 140 lb hot press watercolor paper.
2. Try to draw from life as much as possible. If you have to work from a photo, find one that shows good range of shades. You can make you reference photo black and white in photoshop if you have it, make different shades easier to see.
3. You need few pencils with different darkness, like H( light,) B, and a 5B( dark.) More if you like. You want to have a good range of shades in your drawing. Get kneaded erasers. These are the erasers that you can shape it like clay.
4. Look at the big picture. Find the lightest light, and darkest dark from the references you are working from. No spot in your drawing should be lighter than lightest spot... vice versa. This is way more important than it sounds. And it is a common mistake even I would make sometimes.
5. How to hide pencil marks. This is not easy, at all. It comes with practice, a lot of it. What you want to do are layers of pencil marks, that's best I can describe it without showing you.
6. When you think you are done, see if you can spend another 20 hours on it.
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Thank you SO much for the drawing tips~!! Im hoping to test them out tomorrow (and perhaps the next day, and the next, and the next, and so on XD)~ so we shall see~!!
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Forgot to add, it is easier to work with hot press watercolor paper.
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Oh- awesome! I'll try to get my hands on some c:
Thanks for the headsup!
And thank you so much for your help, it's nice to see there are some genuinely nice people on here. c:
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You are welcome, feel free to ask if you have questions.
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This is SO GOOD - Love all the elements both realistic and fanciful/surreal - I can see why it was chosen for a DD - congratulations! - Judy
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beautifully rendered piece and a well-deserved DD!
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man your work kicked my ass ! I have no words ... This is really art!
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i like the whole piece overall, but what spoke to me the most about it was, that the art speaks to you in this piece (the fairy talks to the artist), which shows how art can inspirate people and i simply love the execution of that idea in this picture, since my drawings often inspirate me as well ;D
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This is totlay amazing, I mean this must have taken you hours to draw, and the smoothness of it all. Wow! O_O Good workand keep it up!
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Great surreal concept, congrats on the DD, well deserved !
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this is simply wonderful. great imagination you have here.....
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yeah that's fuckin dope man, you have really good hands
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Great work!! 
but it's amazing!!
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