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dierat β 2013 self-portrait
Published: 2014-01-25 19:00:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 2116; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 0
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I drew this back in November but didn't get around to scanning it until now. To get the slight downward perspective, I took a standing mirror, taped the bottom to a table, taped the top to a thin rope, then nailed the rope to the wall. Drawn with white and black charcoal pencils on watercolor paper toned with a black acrylic wash.
You can download the paper texture (without the drawing) here:
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Comments: 42
This is gorgeous! Your attention to detail in the hair and stuff is amazing!
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Beautiful- I love your use of light and shadows, especially the little bright highlights in the hair. Gorgeous!
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Gorgeous! Hope one day to get to this quality.
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Thank you, you're too kind!
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I'm looking forward to the day when I can draw like this.
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Don't give up! Drawing is all about practice and persistence. If I could go back to high school and tell people that one day I was going to be able to draw like this, they would've laughed. Well who's laughing now?! Haha!!
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I love how masterful your shading and lighting is. It's a great drawing.
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Lovely work. The hair in particular is brilliant as is your shading.
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Thanks! I really wasn't sure about the hair, so I'm glad you like it in particular
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Dramatic and beautiful, she pops off the page. That's some wicked shading right there.
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I really like the values. Especially how you handled the shadow of the head and how you worked on the hair.Β
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Thanks dude! I wasn't sure about the hair, so I'm glad you like how it turned out.
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i hope you wear it that way - looks totally classy!
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Yeah it's naturally curly, but I dunno if I "wear it" or it if it wears me.. I tried to find a recent photo of my hair but this is all I've got: fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.netβ¦
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lol - that deer!
Is that you in the photo? from your self portraits i had expected a lot darker teint.
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Yeah that's me, with the coolest deer ever 
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Great use of shadows and highlights. I also like the way you did the hair.
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Thank you! I wasn't sure if the rendering on the hair was working, so I'm glad to hear you like it!
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Wow, I admire your skills and talent.
And determination - because the description sound like you
murdered a part of the room to get this donee xD
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that`s very beautiful! I love the details Β
PS. I love this styleΒ
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