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Published: 2005-04-13 05:56:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 40887; Favourites: 777; Downloads: 6763
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This tutorial covers my basic process from sketch to final product, and how I do textures in graphite. This was a tough tutorial to make - I can see why there isn't a "traditional" section for tutorials. Hope it's somewhat useful.Related content
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oh ok thank you
Well i found my kneadable *sqwee!* but i think it reallly hates me because when i use it..... it just doesnt turn out the way i want to...(dumb question ahead) do you have any tips on useing one?
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Do I have any tips on using a kneadable? Don't rub with it - dab and lift. And make sure you make it into an appropriate shape, first.
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You're good. 
Thanks xx
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Thank you, and you're welcome :3
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Awesome tutorial, I've never really used erasers before to help with highlighting and I always have trouble with hair and stuff. This is really useful and your art is something else!!!
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Thank you very much :3 I hope it really comes in useful.
And yes, the eraser is an essential tool for me when doing graphite. It's as important as my pencils...
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That's AMAZING!
You drew that?? 
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Thank you... but, heh, this is still a tutorial - at least I showed how you can do it, too?
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GREAT CHEESECAKES!!! YOU...DREW THAT?! oh my goodgrief, it looks so real!!!! wow...and it's a tutorial, so i can learn all your secrets!!! YAY!! this is awesome. abseloutely awesome.
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Mmm... Cheesecake...
Yes, I drew it - you can find the unadulterated image here: [link]
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THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!! Just what i neeeeed! Thanks, you have made it very clear... *note to self: aquire kneadable eraser* 
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Hehee, thank you, and you're welcome :3 Best of luck to you.
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Wow, this is awesome! I'm going to have a lot of fun with it. I've always had a problem with shading, always experimenting with different methods. This one seems to work well with you, so I'll give it a shot!
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Hehe, thank you very much! Good luck with it, and let me know if you have any problems :3
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I have no words but gratitude ones... It worked like a teacher! LetΒ΄s see what may come up with this! Thank you jocarra! ^_^!!! Lovely tutorial!!!
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Awww, you're very welcome! Let me know how it goes :3
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Hey! You again
My doubts are generaly about fur sense, light/shadow. Otherwise, all i need is some experience and and mediums. I will learn to use acrylics, soon! Sorry for the book i just typed, i am excited with your disposition! It is not like that artists that donΒ΄t care about you^-^! Well, so this is it. 
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Wow, you're doing quite well for having just started drawing last year! Well done
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Thank you for that
Well, first of all, my main doubts are focused on the fur, and how to duplicate better the photo/drawing itself... For the second, i think it is only practice, but the first, i have problems. I have studied ailahΒ΄s art(Scarlet Conjurer.) trying to see what see does in the fur, but i am having difficulties with it. It is being difficult to learn alone.
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It takes a lot of time and practice and observation. I learned on my own, too.
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... Oh. My time is very short, something i think is common to we all. But i have a lot of will, and i will keep trainnig! And we donΒ΄t stop to learn, and thus we can become good, better, and even better
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Oh, yes! I forgot something while typing. I have some porportion problems with certain position. Sometimes i have difficulty reproducing some pictures, because , mainly, of the objects position... -_-. Eeek! This is it! now it does!
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Aha, gotta try this! ;D *faves*
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Finally, the beautiful fur-texture mystery has been solved. I cannot tell you how many times I've tried to render fur flawlessly...thank God for people like you who help us all out. Wonderful tutorial, and thanks you again for taking the time and immense effort to make it.
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Thank you so much for the wonderful comment
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Thanks. I can't wait to try this out.
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Heheh, lemme know how it goes
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Thank you! A very helpful tutorial, although a bit more before and after shots would have been cool.
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Thank you very much :3
Yes, I always thought it would've been good if I took more scans, but once the chance is missed, it's too late.
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Oh, very nice tutor.
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My god yes. I've never had any proper, how-to-draw-people training, or really anythig in particular training-except 3 classes on the human face as part of my school "art" class. and that was the very basics. (ex: eyes are halfway down the face, not two inches away from the top of the head) this is very good. would youdo something similar for clothes, too? those are HARD.
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*chuckles* I'm horrible at clothes X3 Try searching dA for clothes tutorials - there are some good ones. My best suggestion is to use references. If you're trying to see what it looks like when someone wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt is waving, try putting a t-shirt on and wave at yourself in the mirror. Take a look at where the folds are. Then use strips of shading to render them.
And if it means anything, I have had limited art training: I took a painting course in Grade 12, and a life-drawing course in university, but neither really discussed HOW TO DRAW. It was just really good practice and helped me figure out what worked for me.
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*laughs* thanks. good advie with the wear -the-clothes-yourself bit, but somehow.... the clthes in my gllery wouldn't be purchase in a conventional store.
and if you had no conventional art training, there is hope for us all.
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Well, the clothes you wear don't have to exactly match what is being worn by the character. You can emulate a cape with a towel, you can see how (shoot, forget the name of those things you tie around your front or button up, found in women - insert name here) look when fitted tightly by wearing a shirt and pulled it tight around your middle, and you can always mix and match. If you're wanting to draw a shirt with flared arms, for instance, but don't have such a garment, use a long-sleeved t-shirt to reference one part of it, and then draw something loose around your arm to reference the second part of it.
... or, y'know, you could just try to find something online X3
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yesh. you are. an~d my kitty is wonderful.
juat though I'd share that with you.
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what? she is an amazing and wonderful little purr-box.
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Hehe, I didn't say anything! Kitties are nice ^_^
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yes, my purrbox is wonderful. such a pity i can't take her with me to thanksgiving...
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Awww... and I love the term purrbox X3 Sooo cute ^_^
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she is! se will come right up to you and nuzzel into you and purr like crazy! also to note: she sleeps with me every night, under the covers. when I was littler I held ehr in a headlock and he just purred!
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Awww! That sounds wonderfully cute ^_^ I love cuddly cats... it's the snooty temperamental ones I don't like so much
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