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LauraMaybrooke — The Dream Lord and His Raven
Published: 2007-01-18 21:10:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1170; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 16
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Matthew and Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's excellent series of The Sandman comics.A rather quick drawing in mainly dark and white contrasts; drawing hands is still a real pain...
Wacom Intuous 3 & Photoshop CS2
Matthew, Morpheus/Sandman (c) Neil Gaiman and whoever
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Thank you. I think that describes him perfectly
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Ahh... who is Dan Sperry? Never heard of him...
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Dan Sperry is an American magician and illusionist. Sperry is described as Copperfield meets Marilyn Manson. He is just awesome (:
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The lighting and shading is amazing O_O
I love this
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Thank you so much. It was a fun picture to draw.
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I really love the shading on the raven, lovely job.
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Thanks! He (Matthew) took like maybe... 90% of the time... No wonder.
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beautiful job! coloring is awesome as usual and the raven is very cool!!!!!!!! the guy is kinda creepy looking.... scary
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Nice, In someway this is kinda creepy lol, but I love how you did that crow and the eyes of the guy! Nice work.
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I really like the mood of this! Although I've never read the Sandman comics, I can instantly tell the guy is dark and broody. The mysteriousness is added by his darkened eyes (although I suggest using a more subtle shading) and his stringy hair. I really like the black and white contrast, and I think you did a really great job on the raven. It's so realistic and the bluish highlights are awesome : D
The only thing I think you could improve on is the shading. If you blended it a bit more, it would help a lot. Either way, you did a very nice job on this!
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Thank you for the comment and the suggestions. Normally I would have blended more, but this was a real quick drawing... and Morpheus doesn't actually have eyes, as such, just these dark hollow sockets. With sometimes blue or red glints... He's a bit creepy that way 
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You're welcome! Hope I could help.
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Wow i like that i am liking the raven alot!!! WOWS!!! ^^
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Thank you! 
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No probs
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I find hands a pain, too - they're one of the hardest parts to get right! I love the intense shading in this picture. It looks very atmospheric!
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Yeah, hands are eternally my problem no. 1 area. And I'm too lazy to really practise... Anyway, regardless... thank you very much for the kind comment!
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Wow I love the dark mood of the picture. Matthew looks amazing. I really like the contrast of the white and black. The hand is really great. All in all nicely done.
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Thank you for the lovely comment and the favourite. I really like Matthew, too. He turned out far better than I thought he would...
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the overall feel of the picture is outstanding! that raven is so nice!
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Thank you so much. I loved drawing Matthew (the raven)!
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wow! the colours are fantastic! I really love the raven, its coloured so well
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Thank you. I wanted to experiment a little in b&w and some shades... And I'm really happy with how Matthew the Raven came out. Thanks again a bunch!
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Can you tell me how you did it? its a really good technique...
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Hmm... Just big brushes of colour, then different shades with smaller brushes for detailing and I'm afraid I used the evil smudge stick too to blend the colours. That's all really. It just took a... billion hours compared to the rest of the drawing.
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I use the forbdden smudge a bit too.. and smetimes even... *whisper* blur...
A billion hours? lol! you must have been so happy to finish this!
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Well, okay... maybe billion hours is overdoing it, but yeah... 
I used to use blur, too *shudder* but I got rid of that since. The smudge tool though, I just find it too convenient... 'cos I'm not skilled enough to blend my colours otherwise... *sigh*
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*sigh* blur and smudge... things that separate us from the rest... * sniff* I just looked at kaze-hime's work... its so brilliant...
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Sigh, yeah... well, luckily I've already gotten rid of using the blur tool. That's something accomplished. Maybe one day...
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maybe one day... you know what I find helps alot to blend the colours... yuo set a soft brush on 10% opacity... it works nicley
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Yeah, you're right on low opacities being perfect for blending
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but it takes so looong! even with a tablet!
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Yeah, It does... and patience isn't exactly one of my virtues
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*guilty* but I am doing one now and I SHALL be patient with it and not use blur or smudge! but the face is getting too dark... do you know how I can make it lighter?
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Well, hmm... short of re-painting, would adjusting layer lightness or hue work?
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Morpheus = the MOST hawt. 
Lovely rendition of him, too. You've really captured his presence and attitude. I love the raven!
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I finished the Sandman comics only recently, a good friend loaned all her 10 albums for me, and I'm real glad she did. I really liked the story. Thank you so much for the lovely comment
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AHH! I love the Sandman! (You'll find a Dream fan art in my gallery too) instantly faved ^^ I love Mathew the Raven ^^.
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Yes, I saw your Dream
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This is realy good!!!!
The raven perfectly drawn and the man whose holding the mask so cryptic!!!!!
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