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Published: 2010-08-15 07:14:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 5679; Favourites: 171; Downloads: 152
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The Mighty Jon Bon Jovi...The goal for this drawing was to approach the tones of the piece more realistically. I think in a lot of my pieces it looks maybe 90% real but something about the lighting and shadows makes it fall short. Usually that happens because I shade the skin too much, so I fell back on shading and went low-key on it.
Hair was fun.
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Great job, beautiful , come see mine , loui3.deviantart.com/art/retraβ¦
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i'm bloody envious by uour blinfd skill!!!
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i am speechless! i love bon jovi- they r the BEST band eva!!!!!
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i drew a picture of him that was this same exact photo you probably used for reference. but i did not do NEARLY as good a job as you did. this is amazing!!!!!
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*shows mum* 'woah thats amazing! i wish i could draw like that!'
Yeah so me and my mum are bon jovi fans...
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great work, I've just drawn this very picture myself. How did you get it to look so smooth? Also what did you use to get it so black?
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It looks so great! 
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wow wonderful shading! absolutely love his hair!
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wow amazing how u draw the hair and everything
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Your work has been featured here! [link] Congratz.
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i see that the answhere is already there, i gonna see of i can get it more smoot to 
~Desiree
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looks very pretty, i asume he is maked whit charcoal, so my question iss how do you get the skin so smoot, if i try a face in charcoal i get al kinds of strange stripes over it and dark spots.. I have surged everywhere on a answere, try'd many differend things, hope you can give me an answhere.
~Desiree
~Desiree
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Hi, this piece was actually done in mostly 8B pencil. Yeah, though, charcoal is difficult. You really only have one chance to get the skin right, after that, it will smudge and layer on in ways you do not want it to. I suggest charcoal on coloured paper (like gray canson)? Also using both black and white charcoal will make for a much smoother drawing
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heey,
The suggestion, colored paper i wil defently try that wan out, i like the portraits in gray tones who i see here on deviant art a lot but never get it right myself. I have the colered charcoal set from derwent, it's a shame that here in the netherlands there is not a little bit more fore sale from that stuff.
~Desiree
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This is amazing! The leather looks so real! How do you make your blending so smooth? Mine comes out smudgey and horribe...
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Thank you! A lot of layering goes into it, usually the first few times I use tissue, but the radius of that is only limited to the size of your finger, so after that you use blending stumps/tortillon.
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And let's not forget hitmaker
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hair must hav been too much work!!
looks incredible!!
superb job!
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Thank you, yeah it was frustrating at first but once you get to do the flyaway hairs with the eraser, then it gets fun
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