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EDIT 24/10/12 Tom has seen this - I sent it to him via Luke, and both were so kind as to send me an email telling me what they thought about it (I feel it would violate the value of the private exchange and his and Luke's trust to say what exactly) and encouraged me to keep drawing.-----
EDIT 24/08/12: Thank you so much for all the lovely feedback, I didn't expect it at all! So I'd like to say I appreciate every comment, favourite and watch I got as a result of this. <3
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Final part of the three-part gift to my friend Vikki for her 17th birthday.
Tom Hiddleston. A3, mars lumograph pencils.
I enjoyed doing this very much, and I really feel like I've surpassed everything I've done prior to it. There's a lot of firsts in this: First time drawing a detailed picture of a man, first time drawing a beard (boy that was stressful)
I also tried the scratching technique I've seen referenced in numerous places, used for eyebrows, fine hairs and beards.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH -fangirl mode activated-Β
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This one is really remarkable -- I love the textures. Fantastic!!Β
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Wait - Tom has seen this? Like . . . THIS Tom, or a totally unrelated Tom who's probably tired of having to correct people by saying he's a totally different Tom?
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It's entirely possible that lots of Toms have seen this, so you're not wrong. Joking aside though, Tom of the Hiddleston persuasion has indeed seen it (as well as one of my digital paintings) and he was very 'impressed and inspired', and a bunch of other stuff I'm -sinister voice- not at liberty to say. I doubt I'll ever forget it.
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Cool! Congratulations!
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If I only had even HALF your talent?! This is...I'm just...SPEECHLESS! SOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!
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kdhfjsdlasdhf thank you
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Oh my, I'm humbled by your skills... You're nothing short of a master. Really FANTASTICΒ work, and its wonderful you were able to share this with Tom I can imagine he was impressed, because frankly this is jaw dropping (don't even have to be a Hiddlestoner to appreciate it). Β
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Oh gosh! Thank you so much! <3
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Gorgeous. Really nice job. How do you get your darks so dark?
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Thank you, dear!
I have a number of techniques that yield the same results, more or less. Which one I use heavily depends on how arsed I can be.
One is that I'll draw over an area with graphite then blend over it repeatedly so that it builds up the darkness. I believe this one is very common practice among artists and annoys me because it's SO slow. So I tend not to use this technique exclusively.
The next is, I'll build a few layers of graphite and then paint water with a bit of black paint mixed in over it, which Β both darkens it and allows me to get a really even coverage, as it blends the pencil layer for me. Yay, I don't have to use a tortillon! It's a fairly recent discovery, too, so you won't see any evidence of that technique in this drawing. I haven't figured out where I can do it safely yet, so I usually only use it on hair. latex, or eyes.
Sometimes I use a black polychromos pencil, which requires less time and makes things lovely and evenly dark, so I use those most often.
If I am feeling monumentally lazy and don't want to touch a pencil (or on an A3/A2 sized drawing that has large dark areas that would use a whole pencil) I'll use black paint: sometimes watercolour, sometimes acrylic with a fluid retardant and thinner added. Before I was smart enough to figure out that paint worked just as well, I used permanent marker, which was good but was awfully wasteful.Β
Nowadays, if it's something with a vast majority of black on it, I will likely use white/light coloured pencils and ink on black paper. That is a fairly recent discovery: 'Mischief', 'Gravitas', and the one of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss are done that way, but some of my earliest ones of a similar visual aesthetic are on white paper with mostly permanent marker. Maybe that's why I was so weird back then, I was always breathing marker fumes!
In the case of this drawing, I used a mix of the first and third techniques with a LOT of blending, and a teensy bit of level adjustment and use of the burn tool in photoshop to counteract the shiny way the camera makes it go on the darkest parts (this happens becauseΒ there ends up being so much of it that it creates a reflective surface, it's quite irritating). I only ever adjust things to make them look as they do to my eye, or to remove specks that were on the glass of the scanner/unsightly creases or smudges, so don't worry -Β it does look like this in real life. I'd argue better actually, the camera never did do it justice.
Oh gods, I'm sorry for going on at you like that - I hope that I was helpful.Β
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I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. Now I have several options to combat one of my problem areas. Thank you so much for your advice.
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Oh it's no problem, darling. I'm always happy to help people out. I'll be adding you to my watchlist, too!
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How long did it take them to answer your mail? And where did you get the address?
Awesome drawing, btw 
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It took about.... 3, maybe 4 hours for Luke to get back to me? Saying that he'd passed it on, that is. Tom then answered me personally the next day even though I hadn't even asked for a reply, which was lovely.Β
I was just resourceful with my contact skills!Β The physical fanmail address can be found quite easily, it's through Hamilton-Hodell. But that's not what I sent it to, and I'd rather not say exactly where I sent it. Just dig around a bit and you'll find it, like I did! (I don't have Tom or Luke's personal email addresses though! That would be a bit odd, to say the least.)
Thank you!
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You're welcome !
And I think I found it, thanks forΒ the infoΒ
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I sent it about 4 weeks ago, haven't got anΒ answerΒ but I guess they're to busy with Coriolanus and being awesome and stuffΒ so yeah ...
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I guess I was just lucky, then! I hope you get a response soon, darling. He was very thoughtful and addressed every part of what I said, even the parts that weren't directed at him! So believe me, it's well worth the wait.
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I certainly hope so, but I'm always going crazy when I don't get a response, I'm like "O my god, maybe they don't like the drawing, or the mail was competely wrong. It was the correct email address, right !?" But that's just me
But I do understand that they're too busy to reply (immediately)
I'm so happy for you, I think it's pretty awesome to get a personal answer to your mail
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This is outstanding. it feels like any second his going to crawl out of the screen ( i wish lol) really great. and congrats on the feedback from tom.Β
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Thank you, dear!
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Wow. It's just.. wow. At first sight it thought it was a photograph, this is so wonderful! So realistic! And it's great that Tom has seen it and has written you an e-mail, it's my dream to send him one of the drawings I've made of him and to get a letter or an e-mail from him β₯ This drawing is one of the best traditional artworks of Tom I've seen here on Deviantart.
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Wow, that's high praise indeed! Thank you, so much <3
Really I was delighted to get a response so quick, and not a standardised one either - you know, most celebrities don't answer those kinds of things thoughtfully, if at all.
You should send him your artworks anyway, he'll love them!
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You're very welcome!
That's what I fear the most - that I won't get an answer. But I've seen lots of letters from Tom on tumblr, in which he responded personally to fan-mails, so I really do hope that I'll also get a response^^ I find it really sad that many celebrities don't really appreciate the feedback of their fans anymore and let their assitants write autographs or letters.
Thanks! But where should it send my artwork? Where did you send it?
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I think you'll definitely get a response!
I sent mine to him through Luke, his publicist, via email - which can be found on the Public Eye website. Good luck! <3
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I hope so^^
I'll try it! Thank you so much!
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No problem, dear <3 Let me know if he gets back to you!
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Sure!
(I don't really know which website you mean, I googled Public eye and there were so many results^^ ..ehehe, sorry for being so dumb and annoying..)
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it's just publiceye.co.uk and you go to talent/tom hiddleston and the address is there.
:3
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Thank you very much!
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Gorgeous. I can't really say more ... just wow.
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Thank you :3
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