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Hbruton — Beaded Elf
Published: 2005-08-04 04:16:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 12103; Favourites: 370; Downloads: 584
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Still looking for a title for this one. As some of you might have noticed I tend to work pretty tight. Every once in a while I try to make myself work looser and this is the result. Acrylic over pencils. I wish you could see the more delicate details on this as I was using the acrylics like watercolour and purposfully let the pencils show through. At 10x10 it's a pretty small painting. If you'd like to see the pencils for it, go take a look under my scraps section.Related content
Comments: 54
I remember seeing this from a good while back (can't remember where) but always thought it glorious...
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I misread the title as "Bearded Elf," and I was about to be like, " UM INACCURATE?!"
Lol
But this is fabulous! I just love the softness of the color and the nobility of his face and his expressions!
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This wonderful piece is featured here: [link] !
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Hello, you were featured in my journal [link] and in a news [link]
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i love this so much. what would you name him, i mean not the painting, the elf himself? I can think of one...
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There is something so inexplicably beautiful in the delicacy of this piece. Love it!
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Love how this one flows and he is very beautiful.
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Very impressiv! I love this monocolour style, and I like the way you caught the expresion of a beaten one, especially of an elf, because they are hardly beaten.
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Very impressiv! I love this monocolour style, and I like the way you caught the expresion of a beaten one, especially of an elf, because they are hardly beaten.
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Nice colours... So warm and natural. He looks like a warrior and at the same time he seems to be gentle and dreamy... Good work
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He's beautiful, highly detailed, and this emotion is captured wonderfully. My only question is, does he have a mate? Giving him one would be awesome...perhaps that is who he is thinking of? I'd love to see him with another.
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Well executed. The simplicity of the palette really draws attention to the skill used in the linework.
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He's a gorgeous friend of mine who is a marvelous artist model. He's got all that hair but it's jet black and he's quite exotic looking. I wish I could post a pic of him but he's shy
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very good use of the color. and a very beautiful image
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Beautiful tatoo 
Great job, I'll peer at the sketch, too.
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*does the found another great artist on DA dance*
I've been following your work for a long while, and I'm really glad to have found you here on DA! This is lovely, and I see you're still the best at drawing gorgeous elf-men.
Those little beads of blue just SO make this painting!
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I was over looking at your lovely work on your own site. Didn't we used to be in the Centaur's Gatherum together, way back when? I really enjoyed looking through your own site
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Oh, yes indeedie. Centaur's Gatherum was where I first saw your work. I'm glad to have found your gallery here, some of your newer work is just stunning.
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I thought that was you! Nice to "see" you again. I certianly enjoyed reaquaninting myself with your work
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Hee hee. Thanks!! I like to think it's a bit better now, that it was way back then. 
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Detail.......:faints:
Goodness I wish I had your talent, for this is truely wonderful
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Beautiful work. I love the delicacy, the way his hair is beaded and the monochromatic scheme. It looks like an old drawing.
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Ohhh wonderful warm tone for this! The tattoo is simply exquisite. I love the loosness of the color and how the lines of the hair seem so gestural to blend from the center. I really need to try acrylics over pencil sometime. I take it you watered down the acrylics and used them like watercolors?
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Yes, the acrylics are extremely watered down so that the pencil will show through. I did most of the shading on the figure with ochre, leaving on the beads uncoloured. I did some very tiny touch ins with raw sienna to give a touch darker tone to the shadows, then painted in the beads. I then took a large flat brush and washed the whole pic with a very thin ochre, using more of it in the corners. Once that was completly dry, I went in with whit acrylic and picked out some details. Done.
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Wow...such a simple technique! *in theory* I will definitely have to try it myself with my watercolor brushes. I've had some walmart acrylic paints sitting in my closet forever with no good thought on how to use them. I will definitely have to try this method. Thank you so much for your input!
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Wow, I don't know why but I really, really like this. Maybe because it's so simple...yet not, and it has a sort of delicate or precious feeling. It's a real gem.
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This is beautiful, so delicate and striking. and I love the colours you've chosen
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Very nice work. I like the earth tones and the tattoo.
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What beauty! What emotion! I feel completely captured into this piece!
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Wow.. 
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wow , great detailed , and amazing colors , realy great art
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Amazing, stunning, gentle are just a few of the words I would use to descibe this piece. Lovely work
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Wow. This is purely, sensuous. It's beautiful. I love the non white background <3333333
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