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Published: 2012-03-21 03:50:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 13122; Favourites: 259; Downloads: 597
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Kim Taeyeon from the Korean girls group Girls Generation, also known as snsd.Staedtler pencils on smooth Boston paper.
2H, H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 7B, 8B
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My god I was so motivated by this comment of you lol thank you
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Thanks. I was very happy to read your comment
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What do you use to color it? i want to draw like this but i don't have the right pencils. This is a beautiful drawing!
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Thanks Kellie, I'm really glad you like this drawing. To answer your question about drawing her hair, here's what I did:
I used a 7B and 8B (I use a Staedtler brand 8B because it is much darker than any other 8B) for most of her hair and used a 2B and 4B for the light colored curls at the bottom.
I start at the top using a 7B. I just build up the 3D form of her hair using strokes following the direction (down) of the hair grain and leave the highlights white. Then I go to town with a sharp 8B quite heavily building up the tone still stroking in the direction of her hair flow. Then I use a blunter 8B and 7B over the top to shade and blend further (always stroking in the direction of her har flow) and soften the lines of the hair strands to make it silkier and to darken her hair overall. Finally I use a sharp 8B to replace some of the hair grain that was lost due to the shading. The bottom of her curls followed a similar process using a 4B and 2B and also a 7B to blend the dark upper part of he hair with her bleached curled ends.
Then I stand right back squint my eyes (when you almost completely close your eyes, you see greater contrast) and make sure that I've got the shading and form all the right values on the gray scale. It sounds a bit complicated, but it isn't really. In general, when drawing hair, I use as few types of pencils as pissible (usually 2 or 3 types) to do the hair and avoid over-working it.
Thanks again Kellie, hope it helps
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Thank you very much James! i needed to know this! its a big help. thank you.
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You're very welcome Kellie.
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Goodness! Your Taeyeon portrait is phenomenal! I wish I could draw realistically like you! I'd spend all my time drawing SNSD members.
Since you're a Sone, do you know about the "Fan Army Face-off" that Billboard ("Billboard Hot 100," the US music ranking people) is having? Sones are in that tournament against fans of other music artists and we're losing our lead. Will you please go to the site and vote for Sones? Also, it'd be good if you could spread the message to other Sones on social media sites and even better if you can do it in more than one language.
www.billboard.com/articles/col…
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Thanks so much for your comment! Taeyeon is so beautiful! It's great to see Asian pop music gaining recognition around the world. These girls can really dance
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You're welcome! 
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Thanks for the info about Lazy Girl. I checked it out on YouTube. It does seem very soft and innocent like 50's pop. I downloaded the video because it had very beautiful clips of Taeyeon singing and dancing.
I Like SNSD's Beautiful Stranger. I also like some songs by Miss A. I'm going to draw one of the performers, Fei sometime before the end of the year. She is very beautiful. It seems groups like SNSD can change their style on a whim. I understand K-Pop is all corporate produced and therefore I should hate it, but I don't. I Love it! The performers are like Goddesses who dance and sing like very hot angels.
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No I didn't. I blended her face but not her hair.
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How long did you draw that hair? Remember?
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Her hair took a couple of days to do. Probably several hours in total.
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Okay thank you for your information bro ^^
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Thanks! And happy new year!
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how can you do this so perfect?@.@
can you teach me?
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Hi! Yes, I do commissions. I'd be happy to do one for you.
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I haven't got any words to describe what i think about your drawing! Honestly: woaw!
wonderful!
taeyeon! <3
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Thanks so much! I'm really glad that you like it!
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