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Published: 2006-04-03 14:01:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 17381; Favourites: 1207; Downloads: 1476
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Snow leopard20" x 25" / 50 x 65 cm
Chalk pastels
25 hours
This drawing was quite a challenge. Partly because of the format - it's the biggest I've ever drawn before - and partly because I gave myself a deadline of only a week as I didn't want to go back to spending months on a piece, I ltend to lose interest in it after a while when I do that - but mainly because I haven't actually drawn or painted at all in over a year. This is also the first big cat I've tried my hands on, AND my third pastel ever - my first with chalk pastels! All in all, I'm very happy about the outcome.
It's no masterpiece but it's probably the best drawing I've ever done. I'll most likely update this deviation once I get a better photo of it.(HEY! Can you find my signature? It's 'hidden' somewhere in the painting)
Wonderful reference by Crias at wetcanvas.com, her website can be found here: [link]
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Comments: 301
your works are AMAZING!!!! I love them!!
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ha! I found your signature! XDD *dances around* awesome one,favs as well!
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This is best pic that i have ever seen 
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lol, I hate being unoriginal with my comment, but wow... this is really beautiful!!
I know I'm saying what everyone else is, but how can you argue with the truth?
Awesome job!
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Now that's really nice. Well done! 
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christt how did you do that! you chalk-pastel people (i.e. people who can use chalk pastels) never cease to amaze me.
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Thta's amazing! The fur seems to be so soft... Great work!
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Hey, Ive put this amazing artwork into my journal for a weekly feature, if you perfer it wasnt featured just say and I'd happy to take it down.
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Oh my goodness. This is AMAZING! I was happy with the tiger I just finished, but it looks terrible compared to this! Wow, I hope I can be half as good an artist as you someday!
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This is quite possibly one of the most beautiful pastel works I've ever seen. The level of realism is incredible, for both the rocks and the leopard.
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WOW!!!
I love the eyes, he/she looks so sad. But beautiful anyway
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... ... ...0.0... ... ...This.. is....so....BEAUTIFUL!!!! Oh my god I think I'm in love with your picture!!!!!!! This si absolutly amazing and and...0.0 well you know awesomely great! XD I really thought this was a photo then you said find the sig and I took the better part of an hour to find it and its not a photo and I was like wow!
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Omfg. Thats so beautiful! Im totally adding that to my favs!
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Awesome drawing 
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EEEK! I just fell out of my chair looking at this amazing masterpiece! Wonderful!!!!
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Ohmygod... It looks like a photo! I am in awe.
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Completely and utterly amazing....the detail is stunning...and it looks SO real....those eyes are just amazing. I absolutely love it.
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The pic amazing! Even more cause of the media. I think calk pastels arenΒ΄t easy to handle... IΒ΄m more the one using paint.
So: WOW!!!
I have a question (which is usually popping up in my mind when I see such detailed natural done artwork): Did you used a photo as reference? And if where you got it from?
(Ahh... and I found your signature! Very well hidden. 
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Yes, I used a photo from a free reference photo library, it's at wetcanvas.com.
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*bows down*
Thank you very very much!
I used to work with photos too. I tried a self portrait with a mirror today... XDD
Hooray for a digital camera.
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Amazing! It looks like a photograph, even in full size!
And you just used chalk pastels and velours paper? I really should try that too, because this result is as close to photographic realism as you can get.
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this is amazing, it looks almost like ana actual picture
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amazing! it looks so real... I feel like I could reach out and pet his fur.
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I first thought it was a photo..
The details are so exact & perfect
The fur is so smooth & realistic..as for everything else.
Excellent job!!!
Your signature is on the top right hand side,on a rock. ^_^
fun fun fun
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That is so gorgeous!
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Wonderful!!! U're so talented that it looks like a black and white picture! Congrats ^^
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How do you render fur so smoothly? Sheer, sublime beauty, and certainly a favorite.
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This one's amazing.
Allthough the rocks look like fur aswell...
Anyway, great sense f detail!
I'm glad to see new stuff rom you!
Keep it coming, I just say!
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The rocks look like fur? Where? :S
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I don't know.
I get the feeling of it if I look close at them.
Or maybe it's just me :S
But it's still awesome, really love it
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Excellent job, Linda. Thanks for stopping by. If you hadn't I might have not seen this for quite awhile, and that would have been sad.
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The textures are stunning, the colors are amazing. This is a full view piece for sure! It's so amazing that it still looks like a photo when you view it large.
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WOW, I thought it was a photo for a moment. That's the most I can say about this..
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i vote that you do a chalk pastel tutorial !! i cant seem to get the knack of them.... i have one pastel drawing that looks "decent"... but its of a canyon.... so it was hard to screw up... no fine detail like ... fur ... and eyes.....
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Well, I don't think there's any idea I put up a tutorial as I haven't really got much of a clue on what I'm doing (this is my 3rd pastel), BUT I could post a couple of WIPs of my next drawing. I'm working on it now and it should be finished the upcoming week. I'll put the wips in scraps.
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that would be awesome, and i dunno, it doesnt have to be one of those official profesional tutorials, just a "this is how i do it" tutorial... which is pretty much what the wip would be. i just have to see how you do it... i mean i have had the same chalk pastels for about 12 years, which is a long time to practice with something, and i'm only just now getting a feel for them...
i just dont see how you get those minute fine details and colour blends... my pastels are like sidewalk chalk lol
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looks like a masterpiece to me especially the size of it and all the detail it looks absolutly great and I bet way better in real because photography is cool but it doesnt mix with drawings and paintings
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Thanks for the comment, and yeah, photography and drawings/paintings sure doesn't mix! Wish I had a reaaaally large scanner.
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hahaha a real huge scanner would be cool indeed 
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Yep, thats true, it's always best to view art in real life
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This... this is painting? WOW! 
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