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HB to 8B pencil on A3 smooth Bristol. Reference is my own taken from St Ives coast in Cornwall at the beginning of summer.Related content
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Is this a portrait of Rock Hudson or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? Seriously, it's really good!
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Wow, this is an awesome pencil drawing! Very very realistic, like a photography. You did a great job on all those details!
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Beautifully done. They look like they would be warm to the touch from the sun.
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Your work have been featured here :
The TA-Feat VIITraditional Art - Feature or ''The TA-Feat''
Vol.7
In the ''The TA-Feat'' journals I will feature UNDISCOVERED Traditional Artists and Art - Works .
I'm a Traditional Artist and I know how difficult is to receive/have more exposure.
Hope you will enjoy it !
Sketch Eye #3 by EchoesOfRae Original : Fate... by TashaChan
Kurzy Bazen/Chicken Jester by stokrotas Pink paradise by Scarlett-Aimpyh Gardenia by kiwipok
Stones in graphite by markstewart Elsa (to paint as Franz von Stuck) by bohomaz13
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You have done extremely well doing this time consuming work as I know how I found it drawing Llanberis Pass!
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Thanks, yes very time consuming but never tedious at all. Easy drawings bore me quickly and a drawing like this tests me daily which i really enjoy. Nice drawing by the way, reminds me of Dartmoor in the south west of the UK where i live ... Nice work.
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Many thanks Mark! You are very similar to me as I find easy drawings very unchallengeing. I'd rather do fewer more difficult drawings rather than dozens of easy drawings.
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That definitely shows in your drawing reference choices, love the work you put into your landscapes and your latest is fabulous by the way.
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I would never draw something like this, to repetitive I don't have enough patience.
You did an awesome job
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That's what i thought the experience would be but it actually turned out very differently. Each stone had a unique character of it's own and was tackled a different way ... Very tricky but not repetative at all which did surprise me. Thanks
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This is awesome how many hours did you put into this?
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Thank you, i lost count to be honest but roughly double my usual as it was a learning from scratch exercise... Not used to drawing these types of drawings. 4 weeks work on and off.
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what a stunning work, the details, the shades amazing work, well done!
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Stunning! Absolutely stunning work, Mark. These rocks are so real looking I feel as though I can reach out and touch them. You are truly blessed with a gift God has given you, enabling you to draw like you do.
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Hi Joyce, hope you are well. Thank you very much, i'm glad you like it. I'm half way through a second drawing of stones from the same reference shoot and i am enjoying the experience a lot because of the unique challenges that i am having to deal with. My portraits this year have not engaged with me as they once did ... I like to be pushed and desperately needed fresh challenges, these stones have given me that for sure 
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Well may i wish you a belated happy birthday Joyce, i hope you had a perfect day and thank you once again for your kind words ... I do appreciate them a lot.
If you have the photo reference then I suppose the easieast way would be to upload the photo to your scraps folder here on DA and link it from there using the "copy and paste" option on the web address box at the head of the page from your uploaded reference photo, so copy from the scraps page and paste on your drawing page comments ... that sounds the easiest and quickest option and would give a worded link to the photo.
if you want to show the photo below your drawing then upload the reference photo to your scraps folder and then click on the "thumb" box to the right, this will make a small thumb "copy" ... Then go back to your drawing page and edit your upload comments by clicking once in your comments to "paste" a small thumb of the reference ... If i"ve described it correctly it should work.
If it's from a web page then link the web address at the top of the page using the "copy and paste" option, this would take the viewer to the web page where the photo is. I hope that helps.
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You're welcome Joyce, i'm glad i could help. Have a nice weekend : D
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Wow Mark! So cool, I can recognize those smooth stones 
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Thanks Ambro, much appreciated
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Beautiful job!
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Thank you, i'm pleased that you think so.
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This looks perfect. You master your pencils like magic wands! Textures and shadows are splendid!
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Thank you, man i wish they were lol. I often describe it like chasing shadows in the dark, i'm always amazed that it comes together at some point.
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Wonderful gradations of tone and shadow. Could look at this for hours
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Thanks, aah i have, many many hours. My eyes need some other image to stare at now lol
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Never before have I seen natural stones being depicted in a graphite pencil drawing so naturalistic it feels like a photograph, only even more life-like.
With carefully made textures and smooth shading, this deviation certainly creates an illusion of stones you feel could be touched, picked up, and maybe even thrown.
Fantastic work as always Mark!
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