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Published: 2005-01-09 22:36:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 2059; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 259
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This guy has his priorities straight...Pencils.
11 inches x 14 inches
28 cm. x 36 cm.
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Thank you! And thanks for the fav and devwatch.
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Awesome drawing of a wonderful scene. The details are just great!
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yes!!! I love books! He def has his priorities straight and this illustrates something I am going to encounter soon, where can I put all my books?!?
Aside from the factor that I relate to and love this image, technically it seems to be well done too. Though I don't do this as often in my own drawing (though I enjoy the effect ) I really like the non-outline. the use of form, contour, light and shadow to create the edge of things. I am just a fan of how it makes the shape much more solid and it is how we really see things if you stop and think about it because even though we register the edge of things and a border or line it is actually form. I very much like the treatment of his hair for the same reason.
You have a good variety of darks and lights and textures.
The only portions I am not quite convinced by is his foot resting on the ground. That still feels a bit like it is floating to me and the other pages of the book because they still feel a little too much like a block that is self supporting although that does contrast nicely in that I can tell he is on the last page of the book.
I especially like the weight involved i the crossed knees however.
did you do this from a photo? I am guessing so only because it seems like such a specific moment and in a sense the composition feels photographic.
thanks for sharing the image. Nice work.
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Thank you for the wonderful analysis! I agree that the foot and the book are not quite right. This was drawn from a photo taken by a tourist in Paris, so the man really does exist, and this scene is a wonderful capture of a moment in his life.
The original photo encompassed more of the surroundings; I cropped it to concentrate on the man and the book just a little bit more.
Shading and shape are important to me as I draw and I love the effects that result when it works out well. In fact, I am a very bad line-drawer, but seem to have a knack for the shading.
This piece has a particularly personal meaning to me as well; it reminds me strongly of my super-literate uncle who taught me to love books and learning. He gave up his career in teaching because he could no longer tolerate the mindlessness of the bureaucracy in the public schools where he taught. He spent his working life thereafter as a shipping and receiving laborer in a company that specialized in childrens' books. He lived simply, wore second-hand clothes, and walked everywhere rather than drive. The last part of his life he spent as the librarian in a home for war veterans; never married, no children. But I believe I and my seven brothers and sisters were his children, and so were all his other nieces and nephews, in some ways. He worked mundanely for his daily bread, but he really never stopped teaching; that was his true avocation. He was the eldest and his brother, my father, was the youngest of five children in their generation. I miss them both.
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thank you for sharing the beautiful memory. keep sharing you wonderful work!
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Thank you Thelma. This is my watershed drawing, the one where I realized I really was able to do this drawing stuff, to a finer degree. I love this drawing!
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It's fantastic, and you're more than welcome 
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This is so very tight and loose at the same time. Awesome work here!
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Thank you! I looked at your gallery and your work is wonderful! I'm very flattered that you like my drawing.
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Thank you so much for the nice comments.
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BRILLIANT brilliant brilliant brilliant
patience..woah.
man I LOVE THIS!!
how did you do the hair so well and its so small!
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Patience, indeed, and lots of erasing and redrawing.
Thanks!
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Wow. I was drawn to your site with those funky cups and so pleased with your gallery. This is fantastic... you've got the shading exactly right for this fellow to pop out expressively at us. Wonderful realism with great focus and details.
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Thanks! This was the first time I shocked myself, as I learned to draw; I had no idea I could ever do this sort of thing. I still don't believe, when I start a new drawing, that it will ever amount to anything. Then, somehow, eventually it's done, and I have to wonder, all over again, "where did THAT come from?!" It isn't drawn consciously, it's a gift and it's magic, and I'm always amazed!
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woah! You're pencil skill is so awesome! O_O, I have practice ages to come were you are... *respect* this picture is very emotive and very plastic. for real, one could say. 
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Thank you. That is wonderful praise!
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this is an excelent piece!
its show you skillful!
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Thanks Hanna! This is one of my favorite works.
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this is an excelent piece!
its show you skillful!
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Great ammount of detail and beautifully done. I love when you can tell the pencil traces, there are some that seem too perfect to be true. I like them more this way, feels more natural
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This is an awesome picture! Makes me thankful for what I have in my life.
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Thanks! I was very lucky to have this photo to work with, I'd like to meet that guy!
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your work is inspiring..damn that's good stuff!!
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When I saw this picture my first reaction was "Hey nice Black & White photo" lol, it really is beautiful! You have so much talent, and not just in one area, drawing, pottery 
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Wow! Great job on this. Love the folds of the fabric!
Tom
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Thanks Tom. And thanks for putting it in your favorites! I don't know where this one came from; it's a big leap from the pieces just before, in my mind at any rate. But the original photo image really inspired me, and .. there it is!
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes we even surprise ourselves.
Tom
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Hey Mick!
I love this piece!! Nice composition, interesting subject..
love how you captured that thoughtful, concentrated look on his face.. Folds & texture of clothes are awesome.. Well done.. A very intriguing drawing..
mick did you use a ref picture or it was done live? from the atmosphere you created, feels like you were there..
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Karen! Karen Karen Karen, how are you?! Thanks for your wonderful comments! This drawing is a leap forward for me, it was the most detailed, by far, that I had ever attempted. Also the first with a detailed background.
It is drawn from a ref photo that was cropped to frame this scene. Was I there? Perhaps. 
It contains a lot of feeling, however, because he reminds me strongly of my favorite uncle, who was very eccentric - highly educated, a teacher by profession, a voracious reader, deeply intellectual. Yet he worked most of his life on a factory shipping dock, rather than as a teacher, because of his frustration with the bureaucratic education system. He had no patience whatsoever for shallow minds or ignorance. Certainly, he was mis-placed in America...
I am glad to meet you, and I hope you will post more work; certainly, you must have more; you are obviously not a beginner!
Thanks, take care, talk to ya later,
Mick
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Mick! Mick Mick Mick!! 
I appreciate so much for sharing your thoughts.. Now i can definiteley understand why i stared at this picture & thought that there's much more to this than just a great drawing, great technique, nice details... etc.. I can feel the emotion you transmitted unconsciously into it... and that's in my opinion one of the nicest 'things' an artist could ever transmit!! His inner feelings through his art ...
hmmm... well i've been drawing 'seriously' for 4 years now.. i feel kinda beginner at times when i see great emotional works.. but as long as i know what's missing in mine, it's always a challenge to improve... right?
My honour to meet you Mick & also hope to see more from you!
Keep it up!!
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Thank you! I'm very proud of this one.
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you should be! it's very good!
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have to watch ya!
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