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Published: 2007-04-12 09:03:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1353; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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It's done, well as done as it's gonna get. This is my tribute to yet another true Screen legend, and an American Icon...Mr. Clark Gable, most famous for, of course, his role as Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind." (Hence the title.)
Darkened all the areas I felt needed that little oomph, and used both a 6B, and a 9B.(Hope you can see some of the differences.) But now is the time I want at least one of those "OH MY GOD" kind of reactions. (and really mean it, not just to appease me.)
But all told, I spent a total of about 20 hours on this one..a new p.r. for me.
Graphite,
Tissues, torts, and cotton for shading and blending
Drawn on 11x14 paper, (image is 8x11)
I have to say, I am extremely pleased with the results, and yeah, I think it's one of the better ones I have done. So obviously I want to know what everyone thinks, let me know.
Till next time, remember...Big People are people too...
Matt
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Comments: 81
i like his stare, the eyes say: " I 100 times superior than you and theres nothin that you can do for that".
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o is nothing, you are very awesome that is it.
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Clark gable is awesome, he rox my sox
i love the shading and how you captured that smile of his
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thank you very much...I gotta get back to that series...I was calling it the "Old Hollywood" series...had a James Dean, Laurence Olivier, John Wayne, and a couple of others...still working on the list..
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you are most welcome
john wayne is the best, i love him
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So does my Granny...and this one is at her house in Jersey now
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thank you...this is actually older, but I wanted to make it available as a print so resubmitted..
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yeah. i know, i remember when you submitted it it.
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Oh yeah...forgot that part..lol..
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... and one of the goodlooking actor then too, well done
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lol...yeah..he had a way about him didn't he...one of those guys that just looked in the mirror sometimes and thought..."Man, I am cool."
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Amazing likeness I love it, you are blessed with so much talent
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Thank you very much....
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Thank you very much...I do hope you'll stop by again sometime..I'm always adding new things...
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you're very welcome, an yes, i just 
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Wow...just got back from your page. Did all that looking...then read the journal. Don't know what to say about all that...but that my good thoughts are with you...
And that is just the cutest little apprentice...don't have one of those yet...but hope to someday...
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thank you for the thoughts 
and thank you! that's little franny, hopefully she'll grow up to be the same!
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Hope so...My dad was a chemist...I got d's. He could never figure that out...not hard to do when you are sketching in class all the time..lol..
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yeah wow you turned out to be the complete opposite! 
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Oh, not just the opposite, the "black sheep." I mean my brothers have normal jobs...Ryen is a car salesman (yeah, i've heard all those comments too) and David is a chemistry teacher...(see, he followed my dad.) And I am proud of both of them in thier own ways. Me, I'm not a 9-5'er. more of a when I get to it-when I'm finished for the night'er. I mean I do have a job , (that I haven't been to since november 29...(when all my health things just decided to go nuts) and I'm sure I haven't been fired yet because it's illegal..but I will be when I do go back....but I'm just not cut out for that kind of "normal" life. I think I did it to appease my ex at the time..and be a normal guy...but ya know..it drove me nuts, made me depressed, and sometimes I couldn't sleep. And the job sucked too...lol...
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ooh yikes about the job! 
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I just do it for the benefits...cause obviously, I need the medical...and soon the dental...I gotta get to the dentist before my trip I think...but anyway...my dad was a corporate type too...and it drove him nuts half of the time...but, and this may sound bad, because of my dad's hard work..he afforded us the freedoms to explore what we really wanted to do. He always said, that what he did...yeah, it sucked sometimes..but it was his thing....and he loved it...and wanted us to feel the same...
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well it's all in how you approach it all, ya know? at least he enjoyed it and wanted to give you guys the benefit of his work! that's always a wonderful and beautiful thing
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really good. especially the facial expression
susanna
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Thank you...hope you'll stop by again sometime...always adding something here...
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oh, we can solve this problem. i put you on my friend-list
susanna
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Well thanks, I will return the honor by adding you...unless i already did..in that case...
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many thanks, my dear.
susanna
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I'm sorry, I put you on the list...and then got really tired so I forgot to comment. But, I love your use of color in your pics. That is a fear I have not yet gotten over...colors. I'm pretty much over the going to dark with graphite (as observed in this particular picture....) and the fear of making a mistake...(eh, so what, I've done it before...just start over again....), but color...still gives me the hee bee gee bees....or the bee hee bee gees...whichever you prefer.
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many thanks for your sweet comment. don't have fear, make it, try it.
susanna
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Simply fanstatic. Gable was one of the most charming men ever, let alone talented... I was glad to come across this drawing.
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Sorry took me so long to respond...just stuff I guess...but thank you soo much for the comment. I really do appriciate that....and hope I'll see you checking out my gallery...have a few of the "Old Hollywood" drawings up...
Matt
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I love Clark Gable and you have drawn him perfectly! I really love how they used to photograph stars in the 30's and the 40's. Those photographs are some of the best reference pictures I've seen!
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Well, like I said sometime earlier..(I don't know, i'm one of those people that responds to every comment I get, so I get confused.) But one afternoon, I was sitting around, watching "The Prince and the Showgirl." Laurence Olivier (my mom's favorite) and Marilyn Monroe, and I thought...hey, now there's two pictures I should draw, and I wrote them down, then the list just kept getting bigger and bigger. I still have like 10-15 of those I'm planning on doing...I do love the photo's from back then as well..not only do they make great reference pics (everything is soooo airbrushed out now) but that "class and prestige" look. (well there's that..and no one else seems to draw them...)
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beautiful expression here! you caught the character very well!!
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Why thank you. It probably is my second fav piece so far. (Payton is still my fav, I just love looking at it) Plus mom loved it too..so win win..
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Thank you very much. I really do appriciate that...I do hope you check out my gallery sometime as well..(if you haven't already that is) I've been on this "Old Hollywood" kick lately, and there's a few others in this kind of style there as well...
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This is definitely "Hollywood" style! Old School Hollywood!
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They just don't make them like that anymore. I honestly don't know why I started this whole thing....i think i was watching "Prince and the Showgirl" with laurence olivier and marilyn monroe, and just got inspired. Plus, everyone draws the "hot" ones today, many I feel have little or no talent, they just have the "look" someone is looking for. (I mean really, does someone like Lindsey Lohan hold a candle to Audrey Hepburn...my opinion...not in a million years.)
And Gable...well what can you say about the man....he an icon...
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The shading on the nose and the hair especially are what grab me and the eyes are just done perfectly. You have mad talent.
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Well, thank you my dear, I really appriciate that. I really don't know what's come over me lately, with this whole series. My grandfather did a series years ago of the most influential people in the world from 1900-1950 ( I think...may have been longer) but there was about 30 in that series. (Churchill, Einstien, Roosevelt, etc.) And I have kind of always wanted to be just like him, so that's how this came about. Now, If I could just get people to say they want to by prints....hmmmmm..
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damned you and your ability to draw realistic...^^ I still love ya! Hey, could you do me a favore and look up ~handofjudgment and look at her work. it my sister crystal
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(head bowed in shame) I'm sorry....No, wait, no I'm not. That's been my goal since day 1....and now that someone thinks I'm there...well damnit, now there's more pressure to keep it up. Oh, I did stop by her site....was too tired to comment on anything though, so I'll go back later....
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