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Loulin — The geek revealed
Published: 2011-12-05 16:26:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 534; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 7
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December 2011A new self portrait. Enjoy! (or not) Drawn from a photo reference.
Technical stuff: mechanical pencils 0.5 & 0.7. About the size of an A4, 21x30 cm (8,4x12 in). Plus a bit of digital restauration (‘cause my scanner is hell bent on totally destroying the gentlest shadings in the background). About 32 hours total.
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Wonderful imagination abides with this particular geek! Enjoyed perusing your gallery after seeing your latest DD! Congrats on that BTW.
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Well... that particular geek is slowly collecting years, it's been up since 2011. But then again, the real geek is collecting years as well. 
Anyways... glad you enjoyed the gallery and the DD. There will be more crazyness and geekiness to come soon enough.
(Thank you, Ken)
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Stort tack. Kul att du gillade den.
Du har rätt imponerande manipulationer själv i ditt galleri. Det märks att du har hållit på ett tag med det där.
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wow..Tusen Tack...och varsågod
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Har alltid föredragit traditionell media. Har testat digitalt tidigare (utöver den normala redigeringen innan uppladdning förstås) men det var inte min grej. Det finns ju så många andra som är så fantastiskt bra på det.
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Ja, håller med..ska testa traditional igen tänkte jag...!!!skaffar lite inspiration här och där
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Du kan ju alltid testa och ser hur det går. Annars har du ju fin hand med det digitala. Jag gillade "korp-serien", väldigt mörka bilder en del av dem men alla är mycket stämningsfulla.
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Tusen Tack..jag gör inte blodiga bilder men mörka bilder är så populära så det blir mer o mer....bra till CD covers och sånt...men gillar ju fantasy med...Lycka till med ditt..ser fram emot vad du kommer upp med i fortsättningen
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Tack ska du ha.
Som med så många andra kreativa personer är det sällan att det saknas idéer utan snarare att det saknas tid att utföra alla idéer på. Jobb är en himla bromskloss i det hela. 
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Never fear my talented queen is here!!!
Your talent is remarkable, so naturally I don't need to repeat it every single time,
and your obsession for details is immense, but we know that too.
Let's just leave it at the fact that because of you I now have to clean my computer screen
from pieces of my brain that had exploded recently because of this piece
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Oh, brain substance of all things! That is so darned hard to get rid of. I've yet to find a really good spot-remover for grey matter.
I believe 'No words necessary' would be the apropriate term. 
Thank you.
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I've managed to clean that and it only took me a day!!
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Good on you! That was a whole day wasted on household chores instead of art 
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No no... It would have left an acid insignia
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You sure? Hmmm... *scratches beard philosophically* Maybe that's why my sceen is so blotchy...
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Scratching beard philosophically lol
I'm sure alright
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Well, can you draw hyper-detailed pencil portraits or what! Yes, you definitely can! We know that when you draw, something like this can be expected but still this one has amazing amount of details. And especially so with those glasses, hair and sleeve decorations.
A stunning work Louise.
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Tank you thank you 
Ugh... The sleeve decoration nearly killed me. It's still not accurate; the stitchings, some kind of floral decoration, is a lot more complicated than what I've managed. Still... no hard feelings toward my favourite fleece hoodie.
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I'll bet. I have done that very rarely (drawing from photos that is) and those attempts can't be compared to this at any level.
I myself have noticed that whenever I try to draw some decorations to the clothes (or armors) they seem to be really hard to get to look right. Especially so if the patterns are not symmetrical.
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I find drawing from a photo both challenging and slightly boring, which is why I don't do it very often. But it's a nice break from everything else.
And decorations are hard, I agree. When it comes to man-made patterns I usually draw blank. But when all is said and done I think I'd prefer non-symmetrical patterns rather than symmetrical. That way you have more leeway if things aren't going exactly the way you want.
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You know, I vaguely suspected it might.
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No other way to go but insanely detailed. What you see is what you draw.
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