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speck-of-dust — Portrait with Gray

Published: 2011-01-07 11:26:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 526; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 2
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Description Have you ever had those days when you've had a drawing planned from start to end and nothing works out? What about those days when you just sit down with no idea and just let your hand move and sth alright is born? Well what about those days when you let your hand do the drawing and it doesn't work out? Or the diligent days when the planning and preparing has paid off?

It's driving me crazy. It's like there's absolutely nothing to make sure the drawing will, in fact, turn out good. You can spend 60 hours on a drawing...and nothing.

I wanted to make this drawing, or rather what I had in mind, quickly. A few brush strokes, for the sake of it. To see where it goes. To say "Nothing works.". Well you know what? Nothing works! Cause even that lack-of-a-plan-but-more-of-a-general-direction didn't work. And the style went in a completely different direction. Which annoys me greatly. However, at least it's a done drawing, looks kind of alright, and I got to practice Genzoman's approach to drawing grayscale and then colorising which is oddly less stressful.

It's done by a photo. And that's not how it looks ><

I might work a bit more on it some other time. Now I have other pressing matters >.>
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Comments: 3

ivana001 [2011-03-30 21:09:23 +0000 UTC]

Quite interesting overall, I like what you did with the shading there. Awesome work!

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Lalisana [2011-01-07 19:25:30 +0000 UTC]

Very striking and nice use of lighting. I particularly like the hair, the left arm, clothing, chest area and chain. The background is grim, but effective and evocative.

The right arm feels bit too chubby, so slightly disproportionate. The left eye, while giving off a pretty impressive glare, feels a bit too sharply drawn compared to the general style and a bit too open compared to the right eye. The face is nicely recognisable, but not quite right - the lips have an excellent feel to them, but the nose seems bent in the wrong way.

I wouldn't worry about the result, other than learning from your mistakes. The outcomes will come with time.

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Moreuse [2011-01-07 14:59:20 +0000 UTC]

nice shading.

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