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Nyaa, amazing *gapes in awe*
Thanks for the tutorial! *faves*
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You're welcome. Glad I can help.
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this tutorial has helped me a lot in understanding how to do them with pencils^^ And your right it takes a lot of patience^^
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Thank you. X3 I hope it helps.
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@.@ holeh, i'd be so lazy to redraw the cleaner version haha. x333 So useful
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Lol. No problem, Mana. <3
Cleaning up helps a lot, actually. But about 70% of the time, I don't do it. XD
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Thaaanks. :3; I really learned a lot from this tutorial, like proper grips and stenciling. :] You make a great teacher.
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Aw. ^_^ Thanks. 
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This has been quite insightful!! Thank you! Looking forward to part 3!
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X3 Thank you. :haert: I hope it'll be of good use to you in the future.
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finally, a tutorial!! ^^ <3 it's definately useful for many different levels of experience and skill. and it's very understandable. 1up.
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Awesome. You know, this might be a lot of writing, but seriously, you convey everything very clearly. And this is what people need in order to grasp the concept and really understand it; you can't expect them to impart wisdom in a few scribbly points (as I've seen far too many tutorials try to do XD) Wonderful job, and the screenshots really illustrate your info well! ^^
And damn I am still envious of how neatly you can sketch XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Aw, Maiji! Thank you. *bows* Lol. I was wondering if I should put, like, arrows on the screenshots to demonstrate the specific parts I was shading and stuff, but I was too lazy DX
It's not nheat, I reassure you yet again.
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It looks neat. No need to dissuade people of their illusions XD
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Aggghh.. I need patience for this. @____@;; I have no patience at all.
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Thanks for the fave. XD Haha. It's... yeah. I'm lying if I say it doesn't need patience.
Just two hours to trace.
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O____O; Geez... I could never do that. @__@;;
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<3 That is really helpful...like magic. 
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Lol. Resourcefulness is key in this life.
I'm magic? sweet *jumps off a cliff to see if she can fly....*
*fails*
SPLAT.
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Maybe if you build pencil wings? Made out of...augh *think think* ...B-type? Because they're the hardest?
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XD; H is the hardest.
Lol. I think pencil wings would sink...
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Noooo...I had totally typed H but then replaced it with "B." Dammit. H = hard. H = hard. H = hard.
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This tutorial is rocking. So young yet so awesome. You know how to rock that graphite. And monitor tracing? I've done it before but my arm just doesnt like vertical tracing. I emplore the window anyways. Bigger and just as close! Ahh, but the days of pencil are quiet ones. Paint is my friend now.
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I'm not that young! *dies and hides head* Lol, shit there are so many like child prodigies out there. Thanks for the compliment - I love your painting work, so i tmeans a lot.
Oh, my arm hurts all right after monitor tracing. It hurts a LOT. XD; Tracing that pic took me about two hours because I kept having to take breaks to untwist myself. My windows are unfortunately smaller than my monitor. :C
I'm gonna try to learn to paint digitally now... because real pain is expensive.
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two hours??? i trace as little as possible as fast as possible. You have much more determination than I do.
haha, and good luck in the digi paint journey. if you get really amazing at it, transitioning to real paint later on should be eaassy. But it works the other way around as well. I certainly like color mixing on the puter better though. Has to be the hardest part of the real stuff. After watching all your money drain.
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Yeah, usually, i sketch really messy and then trace for ages. XD; I sketch really messy.
Lol. It's a long journey I'm kind of scared to take. DX;
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*Thoughtfully takes notes*
Nice job - very thorough and concise. Hehe, there's not too much writing.
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You sure? XD I have a tendency to blab a lot. 
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Psh, the writing goes into so much more depth than just a progression of pictures. Again, very nicely written. Anyway, it's really interesting to read - your method to pencils is a bit different to the approach I would use if someone were to put a pencil in my hand and say, "Go forth and make art with zee pencil." (Which is something I should really do soon...but I'm so fond of open canvas. <33 )
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Lol. It's sa very oddly self-developed appoach XD;
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Thats a fantastic tutorial, keep it up!
Love how you use the computer as a light table XD
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X3 Thank you.
Lol. everyone keeps mentioning that! i'm cheap, okay!?! DX!
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it's not cheap, it's resourceful. I used to use the TV until I would afford one of my own. Hurt my neck pretty bad though
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all I've been asking for for xmas/birthday for the past two years is a nice little light table... I've yet to get one :<
You're so much more organized about your shading than I am. Mine's always a messy mass of scribbles XD
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Me, I figured I'd rather have a nice computer than a light table. So.... XD;
Lol. I'm terrible in that I'm always obsessing over my shading steps! It leaves no room for freedom.
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Amazing. ^-^
How did you develop such a great 3-dimensional image of the human face in your mind? It seems to be one of the things that continually eludes me. X.x
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X3 Thanks! *heart*
Okay. That's... a lot harder to explain. Take a look at some pictures of faces with just bone and muscle. Take a look at people around you - see how their heads look at different angles. Try to understand how all the planes of the face - like the nose, the cheeks - come together. Try simplifying the face into different 3D shapes - a pyramid for the nose, spheres for the eyes. Then think about how light would fall along these shapes.
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Hmmm... Thanks for the tip. ^-^
I must become a ninja... >.> So that I can watch my friends and not get caught and questioned as to why I'm staring.
*stalks strangers in the mall*
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Yeah, that one is more practice with the mind than the actual shading. It's a bit more difficut. I may put up a "how to draw heads" tutorial, but I doubt it since it's an area I'm wearker in.
Haha, and if I didn't say it before, thanks for the fave. X3
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You're welcome, always. ^-^
Ninja, ninja, ninja...
It actually might be fun to watch people in the mall... o.o; And sit on the couches with my sketchbook and be all *SKETCHES LIKE MADDDDDD! XD* o.o 'Tis actually how my brother met the person who is now his boss. =o
Thank you! I will think about the shapes more... And keeping working on my extremities.
=O Would you ever think about a tutorial on hands?
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Haha, sounds like your brother her a cool job.
Hands? No. I'm not good enough at those. I need to study them more.
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He's a welder. >.>
Heh, me too. *lol* I used to be good at them... D= How did I go backwards? XD
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______________D8 *gapes at your drool-worthy technique* I really like how you stenciled out the hair... the width variation with the pencil makes the outlines look SO dang fancy!
I really want to try out pencils now, but at the same time, I'm scared of failure. But I have to learn! Ahh, I'll see if my wallet can afford some basic tools right now... >3
As for the lightbox deal, I use my bedroom window and tape (I only use this for watercolors because I don't want there to be a lot of erased lines on the final product)! It gets a lot of sunlight as long as I'm not trying to transfer stuff at night. Drawing on a computer monitor and needing to turn sideways seems a lot more difficult... x__x Is that an old spare used just from lining purposes? I think doing it on my monitor might break something. *ouch!*
...and your hands are NOT fat!!
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