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Published: 2004-11-27 11:47:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1708; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 308
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An undead horse, breathing fire and stuggling to escape from its own enchated mane.Related content
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I am not sure anymore. I did it when I was 17. The project over all took six months but most of that was taken up with preparation, including riding lessons and many sketches. I think the final drawing took about six weeks to complete, there was easily over 250 hours worth of work during that time.
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Wow, six months? And what does riding lessons have to do with this awesome peice?? My goodness, I hope you took breaks while you drew it.
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Its is very easy to clock up 100 hours on a drawing if you do it over several weeks. Artistic projects of any kind suck up hours like a rocket burns fuel.
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No kidding. I didn't realize a sketch was supposed to take at LEAST an hour or two to complete.
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Yes, the long term drawing project is a big door to pass through. People are used to a lot of crafts taking time, but a relatively spontaneous media like drawing is usually assumed to be a 'sprint' event only.
You start to enter the 'adult' world of art when your process of creation is dictated by your imagination, and not by the basic physical characteristics of your chosen media.
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Strangely enough, I actually understand what you're saying.
I think I have a while before I enter the 'adult' world of art. Uggghh, it just seems like so much! DX
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Just wait 'till you have a go at a work that is physically bigger than yourself!
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Because I'm too lazy.
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Well at least you understand the problem.
The good news is you have the rest of your life to fix it.
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It took about six months of horse drawing to prepare for Brakeout. I even took up riding.
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wow.. dedication 
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Shark is a very good question. Recreational swimming is basically a 20th century invention. Before the 1950s, general knowledge of the sea was limited to the dinner plate, Treasure Island, Titanic, Moby Dick and 20 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Recreational fishing was on par with bird watching or hunting.
The ocean was beyond the horizon for most people of the in the mid 20th century. We sailed to foreign wars over it, fought world war two on it, tested the hydrogen bomb and corperations dumped anything they liked into it... no body cared.... no body knew.
But soon the cold war shrank the globe to a single battle field, the environmental movement exploded, and international law governning the worlds oceans changed dramatically.
The efforts of Dysney and National Geographic started to change the general publics perception of the sea in the mid 1960s.
Steven Spieberg's Jaws in 1975 was the first time many people were exposed to the reality and folklaw of sharks. Today in makes facinating viewing from this point of view.
Before 1975 it is difficult to conceive of many urban artists painting sea life of any kind.
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Wow, this, I did not know... thank you for that tidbit.... Now I don't even have to TRY today, I've already learned something and its not even 10AM
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WOAHHHHHHHH!
(sorry, lame comment, I know, but it's early, and since I've given up coffee it takes my brain awhile to warm up in the morning)
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Everyone is allowed to be lame sometimes, epecially those such as yourself who often contribute in-depth comments.
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Hrughugh... I annoy myself... I know the priciples of this, I probably have the imagination and maybe even the skill... but not the patience or the ability to put it all together...
Yeah this horse is better than your headless horseman one - they still both rock though...
which bit is the fire? Are those circle bits smoke or bubbles of fire? ( a mate of mine has a slight obsession with bubbles of fire and if they were I'd like to show her this)
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I did this drawing when I was 17, and at the time I did not have many 'tricks' up my sleeve when it came to structural diversity. Actually the bubles relate to a childhood memory. Cyanide is used to leach gold from ore in many gold minds around the world. The process is digusting and dangerious, involving endless tubs of grey poisonous froth... that where the bubles come from.
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I just realised i never really LOOKED at yr artwork.....*slams hand agaist head in shame* Yr worthwile words were worthy enough for a watch, but this stuff is just pure iceing. This black beauty is just wonderful! and as for the medium, i would've smeared the hell out of it...lol.
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lol.... amazing what you can do with a piece of paper between your hand and the drawing
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hope your hands end up black as charcoal then... sniff...
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Well YEAH if ya wanna do it the EASY way.....lol
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Thank you very much. There is no magic to it - its just hard work and long hours.
I see you have only just joined us, and that you are a friend of Nini in Georgia. Nini is a very special tallent and i believe she has a great future.
if I can help with anything to do with drawing etc not hesitate to ask
Philip
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Yes, I believe it's hard work!
Nina was on of the first who gave comment and DA watched me
yes, she is talented, i like mutch of her work.
and thank you very much! i will ask if i have probs with something!
Nele
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no problem Nele... keep up the great work and never EVER give up.
Philip
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thanx! i'll keep that in my mind!
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ABsolutly AMAZINg. the lines are just PHENOMINAL. AWESOME job. Wow.
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oh yeah! .... that was the point... being trapped by yourself... a part of you out of control.
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Just don't tell the horse... she will double her modeling fees.
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Thank you... like your banner and hope to see more your stuff up on DA soon.
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Great work, it says drawing but it looks to be carved out of a metal sheet. Your shading is so goood, I'm so very jelouse. Love the motion, love the detail and subject and well everything about it.
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My father taught me how to do hair. During the war he did comercial hand lithography on stone. He did a lot of movie posters. He said the hardest thing was to do Rita Heyworth's curls.
The real trick - apart from moving the paper around is to bother! Take whatever time is necessary to get it the way you want it. There is no point in compromise.
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I have been working with photoshop since 1993. Before that I literaly grew up in my father's commercial art studio. I saw first hand how photoshop effects were created using optical filters, process cameras and razor blades.
I hardly ever use photoshop filters because most of them leave a charateristic signature. For example I always remove dust and scratches by hand. I aim to keep my work as consistant with manual techiques as possible - so you cannot tell that the image has been manipulated. I have also found that it is not a good idea to go too far unless you want to run the risk of making the image look artificial. I am not saying this is the only way to go - it works for me.
There is no photoshop work in Brakeout save for a slight contrast correction to make it look its best on a backlit screen. The shot itself is out of focus and I hope to get a better one up soon.
I would like very much to see your ivory ball. I have heard about them before and often tired to imagine the process of carving such an obect - the only thing to compare with it today is keyhole surgery.
As a boy I trained as a violin maker under my grandfather... so I know where you are coming from.
I would say this about your ivory ball... it was not made my magic! That is a profound idea to think about. Most of the process of making such an object is simply highly skilled craft techniques. They CAN be learnt - they can be mastered and they can be surpassed! The ball sits there as a mute challenge to future generations - saying 'can you do better?' If the answer is yes - then perhaps humans still have what it takes to servive in this crazy world we have created for ourselves.
I thank you for thinking my efforts honor the efforts of our fore fathers. I only hope I can continue to improve in whatever I attempt to achieve in life.
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Very true, there are those who have no patience for art anymore. Since photoshop people just do make neat effects like this on the computer though the they can never quite capture the true effect of something done by hand. I used to have patience, though even then something like would have been quite out of my abilities but the only factor more important then patience but ties in with it greatly is practice and finding what you have to do and how to move your hand for each effect. You have obviously mastered it. All in all, still an incredible drawing.
(neat side story)
Before Ivory became illegal my great great grandfather was an ivory collector in china. We still have one of his peacies in our family. It's an ivory ball with dragon's linking to eachother creating some sort of mesh like effect. inbetween that mesh is anther ball carved like a persian rug, with another ball inside and so one and so one, at least 8 layers. The best thing in the artist had to carve those balls without opening it, he carved the balls by pokeing his intruments around (if you want I'll send you a picture of it. This thing is no bigger the a hard ball. My grandfather says that it's now a lost art, they have computers and lasers to do that work for them. No one really has the ability to do something like that anymore because so one has patience, and most of the time it's because our lives don't leave us time to take up such practices anymore. Yet, this drawing of yours shows the same craft and effort as that ivory ball.
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Thank you... I think 
I had a look at your work and I am very impressed with the variety of situations you try to illustrate. I would like to see you do some observational drawing to strengthen your understanding of human form. This is best done with a mirror and a strong directional light source. This way you don't have to pay for a model and you can do a lot of work on the same pose over and over again. This may seem boring but it is very important if you are going to understand where your command of line ends and your depandance on happy accidents begins.
Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more of your drawings as you do them
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