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markstewart — Holy-Moly in graphite
Published: 2014-03-19 15:20:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 13446; Favourites: 423; Downloads: 0
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Graphite pencils on smooth Bristol:Size A2. Pencil grades 3B up to 7B, pencil eraser and retractable pencil eraser, cotton wool and Nylon paint brush and chamois leather for blending.
Reference from here flexdreams.deviantart.com/art/… .
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Updated Feb 2015 with a larger file.
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You're already quite a few miles ahead down that road.
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Another beautifully done piece of drawing Mark!
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You did a great job blending the shading with such soft trasisitions in tone
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Thank you, i've been experimenting with shading techniques on my last three pieces and i'm quite happy how they turned out.
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Care to share your experimental shading techniques that you have discovered to make your pieces look so flawless?
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It's nothing new, just light layers of hatching using three grades .. not something i usually do but i wanted to try it out. The final two or three layers were left unblended.
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waw waw waw she is truly alive!!! well done i so love this one mark
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I really loved doing this one but it did take me two attempts .. i had her eyes too close together in the first lol, it looked very strange indeed
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so this happens to pros like you, you see me much relieved i always think i am the only one butchering things up and that all the artists i admire only have to put their pencil or brush or stylus on their paper, wacom, canvas to make immediate successes lol, i guess i am romantising art lol
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I love experimenting and trying out new ideas (this year I have experimented with grey scale) so I do throw a lot away and start again because some ideas are not always as good as I first thought. Four of my last five were binned after about 20hrs work and two of them because the sketches were way out proportionally. It happens and unlike digital I waste a lot of expensive materials which sucks 
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thank you, aww i love my digital you can tweak it till it is right and not lose your effort, i could imagine another artform but then i am deeply in love with my wacom
i know lots of people still doubt digital, find it easy, which it isn't by the way but it sure has its advantages
but i will always have a soft spot for the "real" guys like you, i was just not good enough till digi gave me wings
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Fantastic hair! The whole picture positively glows!
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WOW!! Amazing work!! Love coming here and seeing new stuff from you.
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hair work literally gave me goosebumps !!!
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Wonderful expression...And that hair...Just amazing!
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Thanks .. all down to a stunning photo artwork.
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Masterful rendering as usual Mark, and the hair is absolutely outstanding
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Thanks, it's very experimental but i did get something out of it all the same.
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gorgeous! maybe more clothes perhaps, but gorgeous!
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Thank you, i know what you mean. I wont go down that path. This was purely about light and hair
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yay. she's beautiful. of all the artists who exalt nudity, you can do it, and i'm impressed that you lean towards making clothes beautiful. it's encouraging and, i think, is far more attractive.
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I have to agree with you, and nude drawing is something i did a lot of in my art school days and was very very exhausting but important at that time and it is definitely not easy .. but i do love rendering clothing, after working on the figures it's always nice to get stuck into something different
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you certainly do a beautiful, stunning job. ^~^
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There is no fucking way that thing is as smooth in full size as it looks at this resolution. It can't be.
...it BETTER not be or I'm a set somethin' on FIRE!
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haha thank you, It's a low res upload stitched together from many A4 pieces so it can look a little too soft after gentle erasing of the many page borders. I will be adding a hi res scan next month which will give it a more realistic look but it's still pretty close as it is. No fires needed
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Amazing! How much time did it take you to draw this? 50 hours?
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Thank you, it did take a little more time, it felt like i was making it up as i went for a lot of the time and i prefer to have a well laid plan. I'll have a better idea of how to plan a drawing like this next time and i would hope to get about 50hrs yes.
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