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SEXIEST MAN ALIVE!I drew this after my friend Tim mailed me pages he ripped out of GQ magazine of an interview with Leo and his pictures. This is by far my favorite one.
Tools: mechanical pencil, blending stump, eraser, ruler, medium weight sketchbook paper
Time: Approx. 5 hours
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Thank you! I really like Shutter Island, but my all time fave is Titanic!
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sorry for the late reply, grr
how was your xmas missy
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Could of been better, quite lonely this year to be honest, but I got a ps4 so .. woo lol
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this is amazing! how do i pay for a commission?
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Wow! And I thought I was good at drawing...I hope I get this good someday!
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Thanks! With practice, you will. May I ask how old you are? I'm 26 and it took me years of practice to get this good, and I still look at other drawings done by other artists on dA and I still think, "Man, I hope I can draw like that someday!"
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I'm 17, Senior year in High School. I used to suck at drawing, but in my Art Class last year, my teacher taught one, tiny little thing, and I started doing way better. Hopefully I'll keep at it and get better and better! Yeah, it's crazy how talented some people are!
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Wow.... I'm like 10 years older than you (I haven't had my birthday yet this year).... thanks for making me feel old, dude! No worries though, my 12 year old nieces and nephews do that all the time. They can't believe there used to be a time without internet.
May I give you a small tip that helped me tremendously? If you're drawing from a reference picture, it helps to draw gridlines on the picture and the blank paper. You may have already received this tip, but it's something I still use to this day and is a tremendous aid in enlarging a smaller picture. Here's an example: [link] Now, some of the gridlines are already erased, since I didn't think to take the picture sooner. It's important to have the same number of squares on each picture and have them all the same size, so use a ruler. An example of an enlarged drawing is this: [link] The original picture was printed out on a 9x11 piece of printer paper, and the picture you see here is a drawing I did of it on a 22x28 inch standard piece of poster board. Trust me, the grid lines will help a lot with proportions!
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Lol, there was a time without internet? The horror! I don't know what I'd do with video games though, it's like my life. No I'm not addicted, they're my life because I would have no idea what I would want to do for a career without them. Ever since I was in Junior High I wanted to be a Game Designer, though back then it was because I like to play games and kept thinking of ways to improve them. After a couple years actually creating ideas, learning to program, and learning important game design programs like Game Maker, Multimedia Fusion 2, Maya (the most important and most used device in creating a game), and now Blender. Plus Game Design fits perfectly with what I like to do. You create ideas (like writing), you do some art work and 3d modeling (like drawing), and you do some programming (which I started recently but I believe I'm taking fairly big steps in considering I figured out how to use Batch programming to make a savable game file. If you've ever played Zork, you'd know it'd come in handy to save your game even if it is text-based!) Wow, that was completely off topic...
Wow, I've actually never recieved that tip. Thinking about it, though, it makes sense. A lot of programs to teach people to draw use this idea, they give you a picture with the grid and give you a grid and tell you to draw it. It makes sense because it helps with one of the most important aspects: proportion. Yep, never used it before but I'm definetly going to try it. Awesome, makes perfect sense why it would be used and the best ways to go about doing it (and when best to use it), thank you very much.
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Yes, there was a time without internet. I remember it well. I also remember the day my parents brought home their very first computer. It was a Windows 3.1, which is the very first edition of Windows ever. If you didn't know the correct commands on the MS-DOS screen you were SCREWED! But hey, I was 5 and figured it out before my parents did! If only I could still remember those codes.... I just remember playing a lot of gorillas and snake, the only 2 games computers came with back then. There's an online version of gorillas somewhere, but I don't have the link right now because this is a new computer I've had less than a month and I forgot to write the link down.
Guess what? There was also a time before cell phones became mainstream. I remember that too. They used to have these things called "beepers" or "pagers," which had their own phone number. When you dialed a pager number, a voice would then tell you to enter a call back number and hit the # key, which would then send this number to the pager so the owner of said pager could hunt down the nearest payphone and call you back. I was very adept at this since my dad worked for the phone company for like a million years and my mom was one of those people who had to know when everyone was getting home but was too lazy to use the phone herself.
I apologize, those paragraphs were similar to the times I tell my nieces and nephews (who range in age from 6 - 13) about what we did before iPods. I do this because they all have iPods and I don't. I tried using one once and couldn't figure the damn thing out. Maybe if I tried for more than 5 seconds I'd get it. It's just really funny to see the looks on their faces when I show them old VHS tapes, cassette tapes, 8 tracks, vinyl records, phones with cords, rotary dial phones, VCR's, gigantic black and white TV's and the earlier models of cell phones, all of which can still be found in my parent's basement.
I'm curious now, what was that tip your teacher gave you? I thought it was the grid lines, but was going to assume it wasn't just in case. The best part about the grid is if you're doing something complicated or with a lot of detail (like an eye with a distinct shape or a lot of eyelashes) you can draw smaller squares within the one you're working on and focus on the smaller squares and work your way outward. I've done this before too, but not often, as the work is usually very detailed and in my experience, gets lost once you erase those gridlines. Basically you're doing it twice, but it could also be my hastiness. With the exception of the Metallicar, I've never taken longer than 6 hours to do a drawing, which is why I'm floored when I see artists boasting about 20+ hours spent on a drawing (8x10 drawings). The Metallicar is the exception for 2 reasons: 1. It's freaking huge. 2. I usually draw people, so doing a car was a challenge. I wasn't sure what to do with straight lines. That one took about 20 hours spaced out over one week.
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Wow, I love computers! I could use them all day, but if I do I get bored sometimes. You know, you do everything possible on a computer, then you have nothing to do so you just play Sudoku and listen to music. That's my day. 
Lol, don't I know it. I've seen Bricks before, they're SOO BIG! Now you can fit all that technology on your pinky nail! It's insane how parents are now buying their children phones, and I'm talking like 8 year olds here! I remember pagers! My dad had one when I was little and me and my older brother messed with it all the time! Thank goodness we couldn't figure out how to message anyone, or my dad would probably out of a job!
Those are nice memories, I hope I can remember things when I'm older so I can tell others. I can barely remember yesterday let alone the last time I went on vacation! It's not that I have memory trouble, it's just that I'm like Sherlock Holmes: I only remember what's important. I'm lucky I know what the Moon and the Sun are. I know compass stuffs, like east is left of north, and south is opposite north, and what not, but I couldn't point which way is north to save my life! Yeah, I don't even have an iPod, but it seemse like everyone around me has one. Lol, I still have some VHS tapes that we still watch today (implying, of course, we also have a VHS player). I remember casette tapes, too. We still have a radio that can play cassettes or CDs that we got YEARS ago. I remember phones with cords and rotary dials too. In fact, we still have a rotary dial phone today, one of the classics where you put the phone on the little stand-thingy to hang it up! We'd use it if we still had a home phone, but we got rid of it cause the important ones in our family have cell phones
It was something to do with the way you hold the pencil, and (even though I've heard it all my life) to start with the basic shapes. I don't know what it was exactly, but it worked tremendously, and it was the first thing he said to us! I didn't even think to make smaller grids, but that's a great idea! I'd assume if you use the grids not to make them too dark, or not to add too much detail until you erase them. If you add the detail then try to erase the lines, you'll probably have to do some of the detailing again. That's just an assumption, of course, I haven't used them yet. Oh wow, I just read another sentence and realized you said the same thing, only with less words! Lol, woops! Wow! 20+ hours! That's gotta be some amazing work for an 8x10. Yeah, I'd imagine doing larger drawings would take longer, and you probably have to pay even more attention to detail! Oh, yeah, I probably couldn't draw a straight line to save my life, either. I don't know what it is, but my hand just won't sit still!
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The funny thing is I used to consider myself a computer geek simply because I figured out how to do certain things on them that the rest of my family couldn't figure out. For example, let's say one of your shortcut icons on your desktop disappeared. My family would assume the whole program was gone. Me, I would open up my computer, go through the program files, find the appropriate folder and find the .exe file and use that to create another shortcut. If that failed, I would do a search. They thought I was a friggin' genius for that, and to this day they still come to me with computer problems, though only half the time I'm helpful. Most of the time I just tell them to take it to the geek squad. Even funnier than that is I wouldn't even know what little I do know about computers if it wasn't for my Uncle David. My dad has one brother and one sister and they both moved to Texas (I live in Wisconsin), so we don't see them often. 10 years ago we took a trip down there for Easter, and my uncle gave me his old laptop because I was 16 at the time and headed off to college in a few years. He claimed he didn't use it anymore because he got a new one. The laptop he gave me was a Toshiba Satellite with Windows 98, which means the computer was only about 4 or 5 years old. Other than solitaire and pinball, there weren't any games on this computer and we only had dial up AOL at home on our desktop computer. I spent a lot of time on this computer figuring out how things work and where things are located. When I was at school I used the computers there to download desktop themes from The Rocky Horror Picture Show onto a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (remember those? I had a whole binder full of them!) and figured out really detailed stuff. Eventually I had the laptop programmed to play quotes from the movie every time Windows logged on or off, every time a new program was opened, a window minimized or maximized. I changed the default font and colors and a million other things. No one else would touch that thing because they couldn't figure it out.
I also think it's ridiculous how parents buy their children cell phones. I had to beg my mom to let me have one, and even then I was still 18 before I got it. I wanted one when I got my license in case I got into an accident. My mom laughed at me. Then a year later when I was in an accident, I felt lucky that my best friend was in the car and she had a cell phone to call for help, because my car slid on ice during a blizzard and we couldn't exactly walk to the nearest phone. I guilt tripped my mom with that one for 2 years before she finally let me get a phone, and even then it was only because I was moving into the dorms and she wanted to "stay in touch" with me. Safety, no cell phone. Move away, here you go. Then I look at my 12 year old niece who has had a cell phone for over a year, my 12 year old nephew who has a cell phone and an iPod, and my 11 year old twin nieces who each have an iPod touch. My 6 year old nephew has his own laptop. No joke. It was given to them free though, and no one wanted to use it because it didn't have a CD drive, so he just plays games on it. And I forgot my 12 year old niece with the cell phone also has her own Mac laptop and an iPad, both are required for school. She's in the SIXTH GRADE for crying out loud!
You know what's funny? I tend only to remember important things too, but then I think back to other stuff and realize I remember a lot of random details that pertain to absolutely nothing. I can remember exactly what the layout of my grandparent's house is that I haven't been in since I was 4, and that was the last time I saw those grandparents as well. I still remember my dad's beeper number, even though he hasn't had one for about 12 years. I have this thing for memorizing license plate numbers, and I still remember the plate numbers from both my parent's vehicles from when I was little (they no longer have those plates). I still remember the grinding sound our old VCR made when it was rewinding tapes. I remember all of that but I can't remember what size clothes I wear without checking the tags. I can usually venture a good guess though.
One thing: you said you're good with "compass stuff," like east is left of north. That is incorrect. East is right of north. Think of it this way, if you're looking at a compass, west and east should spell WE. Or, have you ever heard the saying, "Never Eat Soggy Waffles?" That's an anagram for the cardinal directions when you look at them clockwise. North - Never, Eat - East, Soggy - South, Waffles - West.
Want to hear the first tip I got freshman year of art class? Our first assignment was to get a parent to sign any piece of paper and bring it in. Once we did that, our teacher gave us another sheet of paper and told us to turn the signature paper so you were reading it upside down. Then he said, "The best way to forge a signature is to do so upside down. This way you are focused more on the shapes and curves than the letters themselves." We learned to forge signatures. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! Too bad I have the ability to read upside down, so that was a challenge not to focus on the actual letters, but I still did pretty good. Then he put a projection up on the screen of a line drawing of a man sitting in a chair. The picture was upside down and we had to do the same thing - copy it upside down focusing on the shapes and curves of the lines rather than the objects themselves.
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Lol, they really couldn't do that? I guess depending on how old you were, that's a good accomplishment. Just the other week my Minecraft shortcut got deleted completely and utterly off the computer. All the shortcuts, not just the desktop, all of them. I checked the roaming folder and all the data was still there, it's just the shortcut that was deleted (who knows why?). Anyway, I remembered I had put a shortcut on my Steam profile and used that to make a new one (I was too lazy to back to the website and re-download it), but now I have to sign into Steam to play Minecraft. If you don't know what Steam is, it's essentially a program that'll guide you threw buying the new games, and is often times the only way you can get a game for your computer. It's like Xbox Live Market or the PSN Store, if you know what those are like. Geek Squad can definitely be helpful at times, but I hear from people who say they've had problems with them, though I never have. Oh, I remember Dial-Up. I hated it soo much, ESPECIALLY the stupid beeps and noises! Gosh, I remember having that 5 years ago. I'm glad things change quickly in the technology sense! Pff, I don't have a laptop, my older brother got one for graduation last year, but I would probably use one more than him. I always have something that I want to download but can't for one of two reasons: 1) My mom things it'll make the computer run slow or is scared it's a virus, or 2) My computer is a piece of junk and can't run it. Can't wait 'til I get one, maybe I should just get a job and buy one myself, but it seemse like no one's hiring teens these days. P.S. I LOVE pinball, they should've ported it to Windows 7! Wow, that's actually pretty impressive, what you did with that laptop! And I remember using school computers to download things they school wouldn't allow. Minecraft comes to mind. There was one kid in my class who got caught playing Call of Duty World at War on it! He got in soo much trouble and was kicked out of the 3d modeling class! Yeah, those were good computers which is why I loved them so much, plus I didn't have my mom saying I couldn't download something because she didn't want me to. Nope, I downloaded whatever I wanted despite school policy! I'm so glad I never got caught, though I didn't do anything to bad with the computers.
I got mine at 16, though they are cheaper now. You can buy some phones for $1 now! But that doesn't come with a phone plan, just an empty shell. I was pretty happy when I got mine, though I knew I would almost never use it, because my older brother got his at the same time, which meant I had mine an entire year younger than when he got his, even if it was on the same day. Wow, my parents put off me getting my Learner's Permit for WAY to long. I just got it on the 14th of this month, this year! Their slackers. But sliding on black ice does not sound phone, I can't believe she still waited another 2 years before getting you one, though, she should've just been like "Quick! Let's get to the store to get you one right now!" Lol, nice (in reply to "Safety, no cell phone. Move away, here you go." so you don't get confused to what that was for). JFDLAPJEFILSJKFD Huh?! Laptop at 6! I never thought I would be jealous of a 6 year old. Here's to hoping it's not a good one (no offense, I just don't want to see a 6 year old with a computer that'll run top-notch video games and high-definition movies). Kids get awesome technology way to young. Next thing you know, they're going to give babies skateboards or makeup! Well, if it was free it can't be too good, but he's a lucky kid! What kind of 6th grader needs an iPad and Mac laptop! What does she do with it? Goodness gracious, this world is going mad! Why couldn't I have grown up completely immersed in technology like that! Dang it, there goes the jealousy again.
Wow, still remember your grandparent's house layout, I can't even remember much of they layout from my house we moved from 5 years ago, and I've lived there longer than anywhere else! Wow, you can remember some serious stuff, random stuff, but serious stuff! I can't even remember my old addres, though I do remember our old phone number. It's weird, the last for digits of our old phone number are the same 4 digits used in our street address, only rearranged a little. That's why I kept getting my address mixed up, I would get it confused with the phone number. But it's all good, I know which one's which now. I remember one license plate I saw once: PB4UGO. Can you figure it out? Lol, that's funny. I don't think I've forgotten my size before, though sometimes I get confused with my age, but that's only within the first couple months after my birthday.
*facepalm* How did I get that compass stuff wrong! Trust me, I know which is to the left and which is to the right, I was being rushed at the time I was writing it and when I'm rushed, I confuse left with right (I also confuse purple with orange, but I know which color is which. I just call an orange color purple or vice-versa by accident even if though I know what color it really is. Basically, I get the labels mixed up and I don't know why). Wow, it does spell WE! I never noticed that before, and I've never heard of that saying. Though it does make sense, why would you want to eat a soggy waffle? I'll try not to be rushed again!
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I no longer have that old laptop I told you about. I think my parents still have it. All I know is that computer is the only one that worked with their scanner. The best part was that the scanner was brand new but didn't work with their brand new computer. I hooked it up to that old laptop and it worked beautifully! The thing that sucked is that was my computer, so every time someone needed something scanned, I had to do it for them. I doubt anyone learned how to even turn the scanner on. Again, this added to my legacy as a computer guru. Still not true, but there you have it. Another thing that added to it was with my dad. When I was a teenager my dad got a job at a different phone company and they would email him all his paperwork for him to print out, fill out, scan and fax back in. The problem was that his boss kept using computer programs that we didn't have and the format the files were saved in was not compatible with any programs we had. His boss claimed he used Microsoft Office to create the files, but I know that's bullshit because I tried every way I knew how to open those damn files and nothing worked (and yes, we had Microsoft Word on that desktop computer). I even copied the files to a disk and tried them on my laptop where I had all of Microsoft Office. Still nothing. Finally his boss faxed him a hard copy, but he still needed the file on the computer, I don't remember why. Anyway, he gave me the hard copy and asked me to create an identical one that he could open on his computer. After about 2 hours working on a spreadsheet, it was almost exactly identical. The thing that sucked is his boss sent him a new worksheet every single week, saying, "Don't use the old ones, use these!" Either way, I helped my dad keep his job. I left that laptop with my parents when I moved out, you know, just in case.
I think I should have been more specific with the laptop my 6 year old nephew has. He got it about a year and a half ago. His grandpa in Louisiana bought it and then decided he didn't like it. It's a fairly cheap basic computer without any disk drives. It's very small, only slightly bigger than a portable DVD player. It's just that no one else wanted it because they couldn't play the computer games they had on it (they didn't have internet at the time), so he just played the default games the computer came with.
And as for pinball, I have it on all my computers. When I got my first desktop computer after the laptop, I copied the pinball program to a disk and transferred it to the new desktop. I've done that with every single new computer. So yes, I have Space Cadet Pinball from Windows 98 now running on Windows 7 (and on my previous computers, Windows Vista and Windows XP). I have that on my backup hard drive because I love it so much!
Yes, Mr. Herb Johnson was a fantastic art teacher!
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still can't get enough of this picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You think that's hot, you should see the original! It's probably my favorite picture of him of all time.
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*you steal a glance at a local newspaper* EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ANOTHER FANGIRL DIES OF FANGIRL SEIZURE!
And yes, that fangirl is me.
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LMAO thanks! I wonder how long it'll be before arrests are made because of these deaths.
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Well, I'm gonna go into seizure mode about any second now, and I'm sure my parents will check my computer and notice that this is how I died, and they will call 4chan to come and get you!
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LOL! I had a fan girl seizure just a few minutes ago. My aunt asked me to draw Mark McGrath (lead singer of Sugar Ray), who I had the biggest crush on in middle school. I did and I posted it on Facebook so she could see it. Little did I know she is Facebook friends with the real Mark McGrath (and she's actually met him in real life), and she tagged him in the photo and HE COMMENTED ON THE PICTURE! HE LOVES IT! It's like I slipped into the Twilight Zone! I spazzed for a second before sending my aunt a private message informing her of my fan girl seizure.
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Oh WOW!! That must have been amazing!! You are very lucky! Would you mind uploading it here? I bet it would be really great! I mean, if you can capture every sexy aspect of Leonardo here, I can only imagine what you can do with anybody else!!!
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I already have. In fact, I have more art posted here than on Facebook. I'll send you the link to my fan art folder in my gallery, since there's a LOT of celebrities I draw. Personally, Leonardo is my favorite of them all, but I still enjoy the others. [link]
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That was my reaction when I saw the reference picture. I am sorry to cause your death though.
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No, its okay, it's a good way to go.
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True. It's my ideal death.
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de nada fue un placer
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I am so glad Tim mailed you that picture because I am loving looking at this!
I think it is top notch
Thanks
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