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Published: 2004-10-31 02:22:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 13039; Favourites: 285; Downloads: 96
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To keep myself from going to sleep in the middle of the day, I started this. 'tis moi!I was planning to do something like this, with ink washes, for a while, and today seemed like the best day to do it.
Took me 5 hours and done with ink and a wee little paintbrush!
there are many things I don't like about it, but for my first ink portrait, it's pretty darn good, if i do say so myself.
I forgot to draw in my eyebrow ring...what a daft person i am
Was supposed to lay horizontal, but I thought it looked much MUCh better this way up.
Enough of my crap, go forth and mingle!
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Nice work! We featured this on our blog: [link]
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Dam stunning, makes me want to work with ink, any tips
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its a very nice work, light and shading are well done, but i have to agree with the fingers
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Beautiful rich modeling you achieved with the ink washes. Thumbs up!
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thank you so much! glad you like it
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Amazing! I always suck with any kind of art that has to do with water but here you controlled it very well. Keep up the great work~
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Ive never seen a drawing like this. I dont even know how you did that! I love love it though
Extremely amazing.
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Haha thanks so much 
Thanks for your kind words
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nice work
i was wondering how you got the gradient wash with the ink?did you use a thick brush and dilute the ink with water? my inkin always comes out solid and i need to hatch to create gradient.
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Hey thanks for the comment!
to get that gradient for the face, i soak my brush in ink and then dilute it (which probably wastes ink but ah well haha), test is on a scrap of paper and then paint a very light basic shade. then repeat the process, making layers as i go.
With the background i wasn't sure how to do large spaces, so I wet the paper first and used lightly siluted ink and swept over it with a bigger brush.
Hope that made sense!
Glad you like it
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cool, i'll try that out. thanks for the advice
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no worries! good luck and have fun with it
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really your first work with ink? can't believe it, it looks so expressive, very very well done!
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I think this one is particluarly good because you went with the flow rather than controlling everything about it!
Very nice! Very pieceful!
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Hello, I just featured your lovely art in my latest journal: [link]
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wow, thank you so much
and thanks for faving it
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No problem. It inspired me to go out and buy some ink and try doing a portrait as well.
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Really loving the mood and feel!
I've just started inking recentley and this is a great inspiration : )
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aw thanks
sorry it took so long for me to get back to you.
Hope you have fun with inking! best advice i can give: put down LOTS of newspaper if you're doing it on carpet! or maybe even better, don't do it on carpet. Every ink drawing i've done (and every one on carpet) i have spilt the ink. it's not worth it! loL!
thanks for the comment!
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this is stunning. i love ink art. bic is my ink medium however. good job
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thank you! your bic art is amazing! just having a look now
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thankyou so much
glad you like it!
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Thai is amazing work, just love how you've created this and how the image has been cropped so it doesn't all fit in
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thank you so much 
i wish i could recreate what i managed to pull off here, but i gues its just a one off lol
thanks again!
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Sometimes the best stuff happens by accident and trying to recreate it never works, it can be very frustrating
It's a lovely piece of work and a pleasure to fav it
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I have to say I am very impressed.
I really like the technique you've got going on by using the ink in layers. Especially right above the nose and on the chest.
I think there is something missing though. It doesn't really seem 3D. Which can only be because of shade/tone.
Perhaps if the background was lighter you'd "pop" out more.
And I'm sorry to say this, but the hand seems a little wonky. Around the fingernails. Hands generally are full of wrinkles and texture and lines. It would look awesome if you cropped it out.
Nonetheless it still looks awesome!
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The ink you use, is it oil based?
Anyroad, I absolutely love the features of your face(I'm hoping I don't sound creepy saying that! lol If I do, my apologies!
I all around love this picture. Going into my favorites!
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Woow.. amazing painting! I really like the details and ur style! Definetly a 
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thank you very much
i'm glad you like it!
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Could you tell me more about how to use ink like that?? I've never tried it before.. I'm doing a self portrait for school, and I love how this works. You did a beautiful job.
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thankyou so much! of course i can tell you how i used the ink!
first to begin with , i drew a really light outline of the main features (the outline of the side of the face, the lips etc). i put the brush in the ink and then put it straight into a little cup of water to really dilute it. i check how light it is by quickly brushing it on a scrap of paper. after seeing if it's the right shade, i paint in all the parts needed for that shade (and leave the white highlights white). i always start insanely light and work my way layer by layer into darkness.
the most frustrating part was trying to get the blacks really black! and now, because i put on so many layers, the ink is chipping in some places...damn! so, i guess, try not to put as many layers as i did lol
hope that helps. my thinking power is totally shot today, so i'm not sure if anything i write actually makes sense
take care!
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simply amazing, everything about it too, kudos!!
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I love ink! WOOOoooo I love you!!!!! LOL"
it looks very spiffy, ima jealous. :wink:
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i misses ya! when can we chat again?
ive been living in a hotel for the past weeks
thanks for le comment
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thankyou very much!
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