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ehcie-utada — mika nakashima: one color
Published: 2005-07-26 03:01:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 2722; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 75
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same drawing of mika nakashima, only now it's drawn using a blue faber castell colored pencil. by the way, this is one of my required drawing in painting class that's why it's all mika portraits. haha! i'm actually beginning to get tired of looking at her.blue faber castell colored pencil on a 12"x18" sketchpad paper (although the drawings actual size is 6.8"x9.9").
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lols I said I'd fav this in CR, didn't know its here ^^ so beautiful *_* great job on the eyes..u make me wanna practice more! XD
*favs*
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wow you did an amazing job with Mika!!
great use of value
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It's really nice. I see that you used gridlines. Those things work like a charm even though it's a gradeschool method that every single kid overlooked.
Overall, the work is lovely but I'd like to suggest on the shading. I'm not sure if they taught you this in FA but I think it would be nice to avoid working with shadow areas only. I mean, don't just shade in areas that seem to have obvious shadows (like below the lips, below the eyebrows, etc) cause if you limit your shading there, the work would look contrasted (wherein the face becomes too white). You should be able to even out the shading all thoughout the face (it's like a don't-leave-anything-unshaded rule unless it's a teeny-point wherein light is triggered most).
They're quite hard to do at first cause most of the faces would look old if you lack shading control but when you're used to it, they do wonders (especially to depth and contrast).
Maybe you can check out these people: [link] and [link] so that you can have an idea about what I'm saying.
Hope this helps. (But you know, if your Mika reference picture is really white washed, then you can disregard my tip on this piece).
Btw, saw your Dev through Aaron's site.
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yup. used gridlines here. i know it's so gradeschool, but our FA teacher told us to use gridlines for this project (i don't know why he told us so, considering that he's a FA prof...) honestly, it was my first time drawing a portrait using a grid.
hehe, unfortunately, mika's face in my reference is whitewashed...she looks like a 2-D drawing. but i'll keep your advice in mind when i draw a portrait in the future, that is, if ever i draw another portrait...
thanks for the comment.
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He/she made you use gridlines because it's the most basic method to copy realism works cause you can get the figure's proportions properly. These things are mostly found in children's coloring/activity books because expert illustrators know about this and most people think it's something useless but in fact, most professionals use it. 
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from afar, it looks like a genuine photograph where photoshop was used (for d tweaking of d colors) u got d highlights of her hair n her eye makeup down pat.. amazing!
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thanks vix for your comment. 
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