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Published: 2010-02-05 03:11:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 19855; Favourites: 925; Downloads: 0
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Those who saw my last screenshot got a taste of the Work In Progress of this and now I've finally completed what is only my second digital painting of a real (non-Fictional) person so far, but still having made use of the things I've slowly learned from those other ones when it comes to my semi-realism style...And that's what I love about Japanese Musicians, they are often real-life semi-realism
and pure eye-candy to look at 
Gackt being one of the most popular and well known I thought would be a good candidate for this otherwise unplanned work 
A reference photo was used, but the lighting was too uniform and the background very plain, so while the pose is the same, the lighting, colour and background was up to me to make more interesting (I changed his vest to a sexier type too
) All drawn in Photoshop with a tablet.Edit: I added a bit more muscle definition in the arms and some texture and refining of the clothes. The hands though were the part I fixed most due to critiques on that.
Artwork made and copyrighted by me, please do not use or redistribute my work on any site or place without my permission
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Comments: 446
Since you seem to like people visiting your stuff:
I never knew Gackt was so buff... xD He looks better with black hair than as a blondie.
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But I still like Yoshiki better...
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Everyone likes people visiting their stuff 
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I remember seeing one or two pictures of him blonde... Well, I like his hair color in your drawing more
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Just giving everyone, including myself - what they wanted to see
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*is just blown away* xD Gackt is so beautiful and much love on the background, hehe ^^.
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He indeed is 
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Gackt--the perfect subject for any drawing. God, he is hot and an awesome musician/singer! I want to draw him--but I am going to wait a bit until I get some more anatomy down ^_^; Excellent job on him.
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Lol, yeah - learning anatomy is more fun when the subject is attractive 
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Thanks ^_^ I like to do people I don`t care so much for first until I get to a point I want to be at ^_^ But that whole attractive thing does help lots lol.
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Your humans are getting so much better now, keep it up
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Thankyou, it has taken me so long to learn how to draw people, for so many years I was making no progress and almost gave up
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The painting is superb. Then there go the lighting, mood, colours & background suit well together. This will go into my favourite list.
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I'm glad you liked it so much 
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Wow, that's amazing!!! ^^ I luv Gackt ^^ his music is amazing
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This is TERRIFIC!!, GREAT JOB!
U should upload a tut about how to get that kind of textures!! it looks fantastic!!
Greets
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Thanks 
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It gave me shivers...the good kind....love the way you make it seem glossy but still as if it's drawn with pencil. And I absolutely love the clothes...specially the vest...reminds me somehow of Cloud from Final Fantasy(may only be cause it's leather?) and the hair is...is..gah I want! btw the hands...or more specific the thumb looks odd..somehow...don't ask me how..it just looks off..but I have nothing to say really I could never replicate anything like this... -bows down into the dust- thou art the Master!
Rambling again..going now...
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The "pencil" look is something new to me 
Cloud's jacket isn't leather (we don't want him too sexy 
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so true so true..though you should see one of my classmates pencil sketches...it's bloody awesome..
(snickers)I haven't seen FF I've only seen a buddy of mine cosplay him and he had on a leather something...or I guess that was fake leather but you know what I mean.. I absolute love it though..btw stupid question comming up..you are gay right? no straight man can have such grate taste..in both clothes and models xDD
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I think it's pretty amazing! You captured the lighting and the anatomy really well.
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Thanks a lot, lighting and anatomy are important, but man are they tough to get right
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They definitely are. You did a really great job. I personally fail at both hahaha...But I'm trying to get better!
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As I was reading the description and you wrote that you were trying "semi-realism" I thought "Gackt already looks semi-real in real life". And then that's pretty much exactly what you wrote
I really like the lighting in this. And it's amazing how real everything looks. The leather really looks like leather. There's the same shiny highlights on it. And the floor really looks real. There's the reflection in it, and the texture just looks very real. How did you get it to look like that?
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Lol, I bet many would agree - it's gotta be the makeup, makes him too beautiful, like a Final Fantasy character
I love leathe rmyself so for a while now I've had a general idea on how to simulate that look 
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He looks pretty young here.
The hair dont match the picture id have to say. Love the colors. Id wish to see a tad more opposite colors to the warms ^^
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I love Gackt, I wish I had my tunes with me at work now.
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The colouring is very eye catching *_*
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Don't take this the wrong way but - did he break his left thumb?
Also, he must wax like a maniac.
Still, the lighting is great and the face and clothes are done very well. The overall quality of your characters has improved a lot since I last checked. Rock on!
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Wax? I guess you mean because he looks too smooth 
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Oho, don't be reading too far into my implications.
Ah, I know what else was throwing me off about the arms - they look like he's holding them up, not resting them on his legs (no depressions in the skin around the resting areas) and if he was holding them up, there'd be a harsher definition (read: stronger lines, not bigger bulges 
Ok, I'm getting too far into this critique because I'm extremely nervous about something in real life and trying to avoid thinking about it. xD But nevertheless, I hope you take this on board, even if you don't make any further adjustments to this image (I can really appreciate the desire to leave an image be, and at a certain point you've got to stop F###ing it around and move on, at least I do!). You really are getting much better, the details on the face (nice nose) and hair and clothes proves that.
Monster comment, dammit. Hope you like reading them as much as I do.
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The background and textures look great. A lot of things look great. I could pick on areas that are not great, but every art you do has a challenge, and this one is done. Maybe next time you can work on improving the hands. Fingers are not as curved from joint to joint, and the thumb in this looks broken because it is bent wrong. Hands are something a lot of people have trouble with, so maybe you can use a mirror and practice on a few sketches of your hands. You might even look at your hands in that angle, and follow the outlines, and border shapes.
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Thanks, I'm glad you understand too, as I'm one to often dish out critiques myself but I also respect the artist is done with it by then too and don't expect them to change it so long as they keep what I said in mind for next time
Yeah, I had a pretty low-res reference picture, the hands were kinda blurry/pixellated and so while the general shape was still visible - small features like joints and the spaces in between were left to the imagination, hopefully they'll get better with future attempts as the amount of serious hand-drawing attempts I've done so far can literally be counted on both hands
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When I first learned to draw people the hands and feet were the last thing I learned to draw.
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excellent pic! he looks just like my old j-rock crush: Gackt. twenty stars!
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oh! well, THAT'S AWESOME! it seems as if you had read my mind when you thought about creating this picture.
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Unbelievable .. god i sooo envy your talent ... in a good way
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Thanks, it was a similar envy of others that motivated me to get this far, and that was a four-year process and I'm still learning
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Omg you made gackt so handsome <33
He's my fav singer
Awnsome job !
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Lol, glad I did
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