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Published: 2011-07-22 13:08:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 8799; Favourites: 331; Downloads: 0
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I decided to draw this uncommon picture for the "It's all about Hair" contest at #Portrait-Love .Half closing your eyes, you could recognize Brigitte Bardot. At least I do. You don't ? Ok then, imagine
I explored a new rough style. Hope you like it
Critics and comments are very welcome.
Thank you so much for your great feedback and favs and watches.
Thanks to =capricordestin for featuring at [link] and to *CountryGirl957 at [link]
Featured in Best of traditional art from WLTA - September 2011
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Graphite on 24*32 CM 200g Canson paper
2B, 6B, 8B, technical, 0.3 to 5.56 mm pencils
Kneated and elastomer eraser, blender only for the background.
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I tried a different style on this one, glad you like it
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absolutely gorgeous work!!!Β
and it's good that you try different image methods...
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Many thanks .Glad you like it
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Comes in handy! 
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Glad you like it. Thanks !
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wow I love this piece!!!!
say do you have the reference cause I'd love to have a crack at it......... you have great taste in subjects!!
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Thanks John
About the reference I didn't keep the link to it, but I can send it by mail. You can drop me a note with your mail address.
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hey will do thanks mate
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Thank you so much
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A comment that sounds like a reference. Thank you so much
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Glad you do. Thank a lot
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Thanks a lot. Glad you like it
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Wow, I can almost see the wind. Just stunning
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All that hair would have drove me nuts! Great work!
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Thank you , and thanks for the fav
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Thank you sooooooooooooo much!
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Wow !Thank you so much for choosing this drawing in your monthly selection!
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Hi, sorry for the delay! Here comes the promised critique (=
It's a beautiful image, you did a nice job here! In my opinion there are a few things that could be improved, though. The general flow of the hair came out very good, no complaining here. But I think the hair itself could be more detailed - hair comes in strands, but not in blocks limited by a dark line. Here and there I had that impression of blocks of hair coming out of nowhere and being a bit too big, for example at the top of the forehead and the left part of the image
I noticed after a while that the direction of pencil shading on the skin is noticeable (it only goes from left to right), I'd suggest smoothing that out, but that may be personal style, too. What kind of bugged me was that the iris has no shading at all. Since eyes reflect lots of light, maybe giving the eye some strong highlights would look better.
And that pretty much is it, it's a beautiful drawing^^ I hope I could help you!
Take care
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Hi, thanks a lot for taking time for that critique. You're right on many things. And it's interesting as for the first time I rushed on that drawing to have it finished on time for the contest (by a disappearing group, but that's another story).
About the details on hair, I didn't go too far on purpose, I wanted it more suggestive and semi-realistic than fully realistic, and on the original drawing it works pretty well from 5 feet away. About the iris, as it's in the shadow of the hair, there is no reflect at all, even on the original pic... Sure the shading could have been smoother, but chosed that time not to use any artificial blender, only the pencil. It gives that rough style for the skin at short distance. And pieces of hair coming from nowhere can bug the eye that catches it. Well, I'll try better next time, and as a STA, I go my own speed, trying to improve a bit each time. Thanks again for taking time looking at it and making opinion exchange possible. And if you're interested, I can do the same for your next drawing (or an existing one).
Take care and keep on the great work. I'll keep watching
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I'm glad I could help out! If you went for rough, then the hair's wonderful this way. I still would smoothen out the skin, a bit of crosshatch can do wonders! But that would be your choice, if you like it this way you should keep it so
And I'd love to watch you too and give feedback
(PS. Ooh, es estupendo que tengamos ahora dos idiomas para comunicarnos - del francΓ©s entiendo sΓ³lo lo bΓ‘sico, o sea que mejor no lo probamos^^ ΒΏDΓ³nde has aprendido espaΓ±ol?)
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