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Published: 2004-03-24 06:18:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 6921; Favourites: 128; Downloads: 1733
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FULL VIEW PLEASE!I did this piece of the very lovely * bionic7 using one of his stock photos as reference ([link] ). I would have painted this (I probably will later) but since my tablet is currently in a crippled state-- screw it.
I spent atleast twelve hours on this. His face took me about an hour, but the pinstripe took forever to do. Literally. Over the course of three days and tons of TV and coke to keep me alert, I finished it. I've never watched so much TV in my life-- well, listened to it... I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire twice, and then Dracula 2000, which I shouldn't have, since I was constantly laughing at how awful it is... it absolutely butchered the book.. sigh. Oh, and 28 Days Later, which turned out to be a pretty good movie. Then I watched anything that was on TV (which wasn't much but paid programming for viagra, male enchancement informercials with men yelling, 'omgitreallyworks!', cooking infomercials, and girls gone wild infomericials... which I swear, by the time that the guys have seen the bloody ads they don't NEED to get the DVD...) But that's not the point...
I didn't really know HOW to go about the pinstripe, so I just drew the outlines of the white stripes in the shirt and then coloured around it. Then I darkened certain areas of the shirt to give it form and such. I didn't draw the jeans in because it'd have been too distracting... but! The shirt! ...I'm all proud of it. Anyways... I'll probably end up doing more of Alex, just because he's so damn lovely.
Time: 12 hours
Pencils used: Mechanical .5mm for detailing on the hair and eyes and smaller areas of the shirt; a mechanical .7mm pencil; and two 2HB pencils (one is cheaper than the other and draws darker, which is excellent for shading... gotta love dollar-store pencils... so cheap!).
I realllly need to get some better pencils to use. Ugh....
Comments, crits, favs, whatever, are appreciated.
`Allie
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Comments: 153
Wow, this is stunning. I can tell you took a long time on this, it really shows. The only thing that bugs me a bit is the fact that you cant see any of his left eye at all. The way the hair is parted, you should be able to see parts of it.
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omg this is so realisitc, the shirt looks super real. must have taken you a long time
I'd like to point out, unfortunatly the link to the reference is not working.
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Yes, it's not. Shortly after I did the piece he deleted his whole gallery. I'll be sure to edit that.
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verrryy nice! Can't believe how you could keep that up!
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oh wow... the patience it must have taken to do those pinstripes... hats off, man. you are awesome!
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hey
i love this drawing! for my art coursework we are doing concealed and revealed, im drawing people. we have to do an artists page, artists that have drawn people that are concealed or revealed. can i put this pic on my artists page?
thanks
emma
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oh my GOD thats amazing!
Yes he's very pretty isn't he.. *lovesighswoon* Jeans would have been nice...but I understand. Distraction 
anyway, YOU are great.
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Wow I drew him also but your makes mine look like crap.
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Wah, you drew him perfectly. I love the pinstripes hehe, and amazing detail
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wow.. that looks.. uh... spectacular. amazing. fabulous. perfect....
hey thats really good ^_^
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:0_o: .... 
I dunno what to say... but thats amazing!
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this is amazing.. you sould think of a career in drawing!
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Wow, this is great. Wonderful shading and you've captured the face beautifully. It's a very realistic piece. I prefer this to the photo, he has a more thoughtful expression here.
Maybe a little more shading on the skin and a bit of an extension of legs would look better, but I'd hate to see this ruined, it's a great piece ^_^
x x x
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oh crap i hit the button to soon
you did a realyl fantastic job rendering your figure and cloth 2 very difficult things to pull off
if you keep it up i think youll really go far
and if your not to great at dawing hands
finding poses that hid hands isnt going to help
your going to need to practice do a bunch of hand studys that get into every fold and wrinkle within the hand
hope thats kinda helpful
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nice work on the cloth and lighting of your figgure that helps it feel really solid
my only gripe is that it feels a bit like a sticker on the page and hasnt really started comunication with the negative space around the figgure
it would help if there were a few marks of eraaser marks in that dead white i know your going for a pure look but it will help a lot if there is SOMETHING there
oh one other thing thats bugging the crap out of me is that it looks like you might not know how to draw hands since you chose a pose that hid BOTH hands at the very least show one hand when your in a pose like this
if your model is posed that way tell them to change there pose
if your drawing out of your head make sure you draw at least one hand because people raraly sit like that and hands are MAJOR focal points within images
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Hit the submit button too soon.
Thank you for the comment and crits by the way. It's very useful to me.
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Yeah, hands express the emotion that the figure is feeling; such as we gesture with our hands if we're angry, sad, or in some way upset...
I know how to draw hands, but I'm not that great at them, heh.
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at first i thought you just played with a photo in photoshop
verry well done.
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hm, lovely. Very very attractive. Kind of an anime-ish feel to it actually.. that could be just me.
adore the shirt!
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That face is soooo amazing teach me please. I'd love to draw people like that. Theres so much emotion in that face! Love it!
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Just do the more major details first, then the little ones... that's how I work. But then and again, when I see something, I immediately fix it otherwise I forget.
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Thanks, I not good with the whole real people thing but I'm giving it a go as I speak. well...once i stop typing
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i do like this one more then the other now that i've seen it... awesome awesome job. Wow
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Yeah. It's much better. I like the pose a lot better as well.
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wow that is so good!!! amazing details on the shirt, well done 
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Ell-hottie! Very well done... love the detail and the precision work!
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sis! you are awesome!
but he is a girl/boy??
hmm.. the original photo looks like a guy/is a guy..
I thought he was "she"? =S
anyway, I just love it... he/she is so beautiful
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I don't even. . .wow. That is so gorgeous. I almost couldn't tell that you had drawn it. That is so amazing.
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You sure have a lot of patience. 12 hours ??? If I were you, I'd be off to sleep thinking of all the details in the pcture I have to face. You're such a wonder !
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such a beautiful job on that hair! and the pinstripes! the folds are very believable. ps he is gorgeous. great work. love the contrast and the pose and expression and ....yeah hahah everything
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ooooh, wow that's really nice. it's very contrastive, almost looks like a regular thresholded picture! great job.
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