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Published: 2005-02-12 02:07:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 12031; Favourites: 294; Downloads: 2836
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*resized and added a watermark ^_^i stayed home from school to work on this picture yesterday. it gave me the worst migraine, but i finished it today in art class. im so glad its overwith!
just a few notes:
i altered this picture a lot, so expect a LOT of differences. i just had to play around with that insane hair of his!!!!(yes, its a HE) i also extended it a bit so the hair was more prominant in the picture. unfortuneately, i have no clue where i found the original photo. but, as soon as i find it, ill post a link here! so, in short, excuse my insane alterations, and hopefully you'll enjoy this drawing anyway, cuz, although i hated it so much while working on it, i really do like his hair. everytime i say i hate the hair, i dont mean how it turned out, lol, just the horrible, horrible process of drawing it! but after this drawing, im not letting myself complain anymore!
the model for this picture is a japanese rocker named Hisashi Tenomora (with crazy cool hair!), from an awesome band called Glay. everyone's been asking, so now you know
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I'm (as always) amazed! The hair is beyond belief...you even did the ratty parts of it, lol. You're so, so talented. His right (your left) index finger looks a bit weird if I stare at it too long, but who cares 'bout his stinking finger! 
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This is an awesome facial study. Like all your other deviations. Mmmmkay so now we know you can draw faces that look awesome. Great.
You need to try something new and more challenging, I think. I would suggest color, or a new medium. Start acrylics or something. Work on color in your entire composition. The color in these pieces does indeed look very real, and that is ok, but on the whole they would make a yak puke. The colors are not unified at all and they come together to create an ugly that even a mother couldn't love.
Try something not black and white, and go nuts. Try and figure out what colors go with which to please the eye. Experiment with the number of colors you use in drawings. Two or twenty? Red and white, or all of them?
If i'm being too harsh, have a cookie. I still love you!
You could work on composition too. While this drawing of a crazy hair day is impeccably rendered, you should consider what you are drawing. On one of my older deviations, someone commented "don't draw something that you wouldn't frame," and while it pissed me off at the time and made me really indignant, he was right in a way. This piece is still just a study that I wouldn't want to walk by in my hallway. You could send a message by showing what she is looking at! What she is reaching for! You could put abstract floating panda bears in the background! I would like to see you move away from reality and send a message; with these portraits, your message is severely restricted by the expression of the subject.
The best thing about deviantART is that we have such great examples to learn from. If you absolutely must stick to portraits, try taking a long look at ` jasinski 's work, and look at how he expands his portraits into the background of the picture. Something like that with Daniel Radcliffe (NOT staring intensely into my eyes) would make me soil myself. Take an additional look at *minix 's use of color, and see what kind of a mood you can put into your art; even a portrait of a contemplative Daniel Radcliffe can be more stunning if they are only shades of red or blue, or (gasp) green.
I don't want to sound condescending. I don't think that your art right now is bad. I just want to see you do something else. You can get a lot better than this.
Top recommendation: go out and buy some acrylics and go nuts. Have fun! Art should not give you migraines.
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Yes, I know what you mean here. And I actually have been attempting a lot of things in color lately, but nothing i have found i would want posted here just yet. This picture was both a study, and something to challenge myself with. I did have an idea to mess around with this piece and do some crazy colored painting behind, or even over top of it! a copy of it anyway, lol. im not sure yet, i still have to get my ideas together. the point here is, i know what you're saying, and i definitely respect it. though im not tiring of working on portraits, i really do want to try something off the wall and different, but everytime i do, my ideas dissappear from me, or completely overrun me and then i cant think straight. im not sure what to do about it just yet, but im trying. my art teacher has been a big help when it comes to that. anyway, dont think of this as an excuse, just an explination. though, your comment might have inspired me enough to finish something i have been working on thats completely different from my usual. i suppose i owe you a bit of gratitude for that
acrylics, ahaha, i still have some. believe it or not i used to paint crazy stuff with them all the time, though i prefer crazy stuff in oils better
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All that time you spent on the hair definately paid off. This is 
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Amazing!! I really likeee it! i CAN
SEE it really realistic and such
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It looks awesome but that is some crazy hair of his .. I can't imagine the amount of hairspray it takes to hold that in place ><
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So amazing. I wish I had your talent with pencils.
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that hair is amazing!! this pic is very wicked
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You are a master of hair, I'll give you that. ^_^ Very nice and well-worth-it job.
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WOW! This could be a real black and white photograph!
Great work!
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woah....and i mean woah...that hair!!! thats insane..and i totally commend you for sticking with it. i would have been like "yarrrgh....oh geez....crap!...grahh!" and then put it away. ahh it looks great, here's for perseverence! 
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wow i bet that hair took you forever!
god, this is brilliant..grr!
i shall have to fav it
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Geez this is so amazing. Even when I've got it in full view I can't tell that it isn't a photo. @_@ I'm amazed. *can't stop staring at it* That hair is wonderful. You've even got the stray strands going every which way...
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This is crazy.. and I love it!! Lovely hair!!! You rock!!
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WOW, you have even more patience than I do. That is amazing.
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omigoodness. props for the hair... i wouldve either given up or changed the entire hairstyle.
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Holy crap.
Impressive. Very, very impressive.
I want my hair to look like thaaaaaaat!
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Woah! I have to salute you on this!!
How? What The-? Um... *scrolls up again*
Yeah, that is freakin awesome 
Complain all you want about the hair - I'll understand. But now it's all worth it, huh?
And of course it deserves a
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beautiful hair and eyes, but his fingers/hands need a bit more definition^^
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thanx! his hands were blurry in the piccy, so i couldnt do much with them. i did want to though*pouts*
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Totally gorgeous. You did a stellar job with the hair, and I really admire you for sticking with the project, even though it was hard and not always fun. It looks photographic in the realism, truly!
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insanely good! my eyes are tearing looking at this! it is too good. congrats on this, its beautiful.
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Wooooooow~! He's gorgeous! ^_^ The hair is beautiful, you did a wonderful job. I'm not surprised it drove you nuts, though. But the whole picture is stunning!
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such a rebel....skipping school for art.
good piece btw
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oh my gosh!!!! you are amazing!!! this looks like a photograph almost!!!
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OMG!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!! YOU MADE HIM LOOK SOOOOOOOO HOTT!!!!! X_X
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Tsk tsk skipping class to finish a drawing? My long lost twin!
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GLAY!!!
This is so amazing. the detail, everything. wow...it really paid off ^^
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Wow. To be honest w/ you, I thought it was a picture and someone put it under drawings by mistake. Wonderful, wonderful job.
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I think the hair would have killed me- how on earth do you get all the strands in?
But it looks absolutely great, so the migrane must have been worth it!
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That it quite insane! Hope the migraine is gone now!
Awesome job...
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amazing, well done as always 
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wicked. absolutely outstanding. after doing a lot of realism myself, it's safe to say that i admire work like this hundreds of times more than i did before! XD
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Awesome work! I'm glad the final copy came out so well. Would you recommend trying pencils for a project like this? Or would you recommend charcoal? I'm thinkin about doing a realism piece like this for art.
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thanx!
CHARCOAL, USE CHARCOAL! lol, pencil will drive anyone insane. my sanity was nearly lost during the process of finishing this.
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Lol thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to show you what I can do
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thats amazing. it almost looks like a photo 
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You are insane and amazing to have the patience to do that! I would lose my mind! I am filled with admiration
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God... that is so incredible. SOOO incredible. I'm in awe. Utterly speechless. No shit. o_o
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Beautiful as usual. I'm in love with your work
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