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16" x 20" Graphite Pencil 2005Happy Birthday to Katie, child of vision...
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I love her eyes, and the childlike quality of her face
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Thanks pal-- this is ^snowmask when she was 2 years old!
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outsting work, mate - she must have loved it - 
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Thanks so much-- Yah, I think she did like it!
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Brilliant work, as usual! I love the perspective. And the star pattern is incredible: M.C. Escher would be so proud!
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This is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, you have really captured the essence of life in this picture...
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Thanks, Julia! I'm hoping to get some time to do a new pencil piece soon...
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Oh! I have so many emotions about this piece, but I cannot EXPRESS them!
Simply marvelous! (that's not even a fraction of what this really is!) First of all, the angle is brilliant. The angle and the shading is gorgeous, and makes this piece what it is. The spiraling stars are fabulous, and the mood in the little circle at the end is truly unique. The highlights in her hair are shining, just like her personality. 
I didn't notice her hand at first, but as I saw it I was very surprised! She is pointing at the moon, through the vortex of stars, vibrant lights and beautiful memories. All the stars collapse at the end at the single, moon. To me, Katie is this moon - a shining person who is unique in every way. Instead of being like all the other stars, she is herself. Just Katie.
This piece inspires me a lot. 
Amazing, amazing work! 
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What a pleasure to read such a well considered and perceptive comment as this!
I agree with your comments about Katie, as well; I found out in my personal life that it's only worth spending time with people you both respect and admire-- I think the same holds true for the people we decide to draw and paint...
Thanks so much for taking such a good long look, Eli, and for communicating so well!
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A+ this is fantastic and it only gets better the deeper you look
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This is truly enchanting, Sam! So much depth which is equally matched by it's charm!
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Thanks, Robbie! Probably time to sharpen the pencils up and sit down to another graphite journey...
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Wow, her eyes are so beautiful and deep that I feel they guide me more than her hand.
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That's one of the most insightful comments I've ever gotten on this piece; thanks so much for taking a look...
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Excellent. Love the perspective. Makes me think of Escher.
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Thanks for spotting that, Elwin; I definitely had Escher in mind when I tried morphing those stars into snowflakes; it's like my primitive homage to Escher...
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thats really amazing, did you use reference or just think it up
either way its magnificent
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Thanks, Matthew!
Yah, the photo reference is from `snowmask 's days as a tiny snowmask.
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ah cool, i recently found myself loving real portraits. How do you practice?
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Here's what I do: I rough out something and take it as far as I can based on my initial impressions; then I put a piece of tracing paper over that and draw a refined version, measuring distances and proportions with my pencil; I keep refining it over subsequent sheets of tracing paper until it looks the way I want it to, and then I spread my graphite pencil shavings over the backside of this final drawing with lighter fluid (which makes the graphite adhere to the paper), tape the graphite side-down to either board or canvas, and then I draw on top of that with a hard lead (usually a 9H), transferring the drawing to my chosen support.
That way I can make all of my mistakes on the kind of paper that I don't mind mistakes being made on, and I can avoid marring the surface of the final with eraser wounds...
Some people use a graph, though; do you know about that?
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erm i dont know what a graph is, but that tracing thing is a really good idea, ive never thought of doing it that way
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Here's the excellent *Snow-Owl 's terrific drawing tutorial: [link]
I think she gets in to the whole graph thing in there...
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Amazing discipline with the pencil on the background! How do you do this?
I'm still trying to figure out how to make things "glow" with this medium.
keep it up!
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Thanks, Francesco!
That glow thing's the same with every medium-- it's a matter of layering up slowly and gradually-- I use a range of pencils from 9H at the hardest to 5B at the softest and damn near everything in between, and it is time consuming...
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Well, patience always pays off, especially in art.
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EXcellent work 
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whoever that girl is in the picture looks so much like someone i used to know years ago.
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