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Published: 2007-08-12 06:26:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 5254; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 47
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IMPORTANT! ([link] ) this explains this piece in context with my HSC artworks - please read it!!!abdication:
noun
1. a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
The reference photo for this piece was the wonderful mehmeturgut's "fly again...6" ([link] ), a picture i have long admired on this site. This is the first of a series of charcoal drawing i will be making of mehmeturgut's work.
Thank you
Materials:
Charcoal (compressed)
kneadable eraser
cotton wool tips (whatever they are called)
time: approximately 15 hours
Size: 110cm x 75cm
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Comments: 55
haha, thank you!! i loved drawing his arms 
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This is insanely dynamic. 
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Thank you! i really appreciate that!
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Cool there is really some excitement coming from this one, the pose is great and fits the title well
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haha, again, thank you so much! I really appreciate all these comments!! ohh, i know - the lighting in the initial photograph was just so wonderful, i really wanted to heighten that with the charcoal - thank you for noticing!!!
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Excellent! Good picture to choose from cuz I like the pose a lot.
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haha, i know! the reference picture has been one of my favourite photographs for a very long time - i was so glad to get the opportunity to draw it ^^
Thank you for the comment!!
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I love the type of model's figure, the musculature and how it all works together. Nice work!
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Thank you! haha, and i love your quote!
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You're welcome
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i love the way you use charcoal. i looked at the rest of your project, and it looks great. best of luck with it
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Thannk you so much! 
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welcome. well seems like you have quite an opportunity there. hope you get into the exhibition
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^^ Thank you! and we'll find out soon!!
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awesome. lemme know how it goes 
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haha, will do! they're getting framed now, and then they get sent away for marking - the suspense is killing me!
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lol i'm sure you'll do great
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Thank you, i really appreciate that ^^
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That piece is amazing, like many here already said.
You can feel the tensity.
great anatomy, I like the composition you chose.
You are really talented.
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Thank you, so much! its great to hear a comment like that - especially about how tense it is... i always try to really bring that out, when i use charcoal.
thank you again, i really appreciate it
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No problem, its my pleasure to see work like that and I think its the greats feeling to get feedback and see if you succeeded to tell the story or to pass the feeling you hoped others will feel by looking at your work, If thats what I hope getting I should give the same to other artist.
I saw you're gallery and you got some strong drawings.
very impressive, especially for a 17 year old.
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haha, thank you! yes, i always try to give as much feedback as i can, aswell - i hate it when i don't get comments, because then i'm never sure if people... appreciate it? if that makes sense...
and thank you, as well, for looking through my gallery - i'm glad there is interest ^^
oh.. yeah.. i've been drawing for as long as i can remember, but its been this year that i've really... grown, i suppose. i can see my art improving, and that makes me want to work harder at it. i really appreciate your comments - its the greatest feeling ^^
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This is amazing.
The value, the pose, the emotion, the... everything.
I'm jealous.
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haha, thank you!
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You're welcome.
Messes can be fun
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oh wow. beautiful work. wonderful pose. great muscle structure. great work!
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Thank you so much!
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haha, thank you! i can never remember what they're called!
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you know, I was online with my mam last night, looking up college and school stuff. And inbetween the boring loading times, I went to your page to see your HSC work.. I didn't let on to her though, that it was your page, and, as soon as she saw Abdication she said "oh wow... that's absolutely beautiful!"
i think that that, and the enthusiasm she used, define all the aspects of this piece perfectly, April.
It's breathtaking.
Every time that you put charcoal and pencil to paper and turn up on deviantart a dozen hours later, you never cease to astound any of us with your talent..
I know hun, that you're worried about your art exams coming up soon, and that you don't feel your work is up to scratch? That's understandable. I felt the same back in May. Not just with exams, but closer to home I mean, I think it takes a long time for artists to really believe and be confident in our work, that it IS unique and has something to be treasured. Maybe we may never arrive at that, but maybe that's good thing - it will always push us further and further - to always strive for it.
And you have a passion for it April, art, anatomy, tone and line, that, I haven't found in anyone I've ever met... in art and in life. Both things being inadvertently cojoined forever..
The more that I look at Abdication - the more I love it. I still remember you showing me the photographs, still remember the raw energy they captured and the detail and flow that makes you thirst.. and you captured it all.. because in all art (esp in mehmeturgut's), it's becomes diluted if there's no feeling, something I heard from the old Austrian art schools and that has always stuck with me.. just like music and poetry, and yet art completely transcends those.. music is notes, and words and at times abrasion, and poetry is words and onomatopeia and yet art... art is static and silent and a mass of blurred colour. Yet, somehow they come alive, with the touch of someone unique. And then they scream and flow and move and dance and yet... we have no idea why.
And I have no idea how you capture that in your pieces, hun.. The "whiplash" of his sarong and hair, that just seem to launch him forward and his grace underlined by the silky texture of his dress.. the tension of his arms and back..the heaving venins and the raw muscles and sinews pushing through.. simply...beautiful as always..
I was a bit disappointed though, that you couldn't see his eyes or that the rest of his body is cut out.. but now I think, that they really don't matter. because it harks back to feeling - it really is his whole upper body that signify the energy and grandeur of this passionate leap. And with his head thrown back and his eyes blurred and closed he seems almost as if... he's dreaming? enjoying that split second where for one glorious moment, we really think we can fly..
I'm sorry hun... I know I wrote a lot! But it's important to me, for you to know how talented you are.. I know you think I'm biased lol, and 2 years ago, I probably was. But now.. it's not about that anymore. It simply can't be..
Because your work speaks for itself.
And your examiners can't fail to see that..
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Thank you, Niall, so much. When i asked you to take a look at this, the comment i wanted... well, i wasn't exactly sure about what i wanted to hear. I'm terrified - terrified my work isn't going to be good enough, terrified i won't live up to the expectations of those around me. I can't believe the pressure that creates - just them expecting me to do well, my teachers, my parents, my friends - they all expect me to do brilliantly, especially in art, and to get into art express... they want me in art express, and just to be nominated you have to have 97% or above on your art works. i'm terrified... i wanted your opinion, because, even though you know me, i trust your opinion. i trust what you say. it helps me to believe it.
The parts that i'm unhappy about in this are the face, especially the eyes, and... well, the fact that i couldn't draw the entire picture. i wanted too, but i though that to create the impression that i want, i couldn't fit the whole thing on - i wanted to emphasise the muscles, the movement. the face... urgh. i'm not very good at faces yet. it seems to cleanly cut thats its fake. the eyes - i fucked up, and because its charcoal i couldn't just rub it out and start again/ so i had to manipulate it a bit, and they look.... acceptable, but i'm not happy with it, lol. i don't know... though, i am happy with the rest of it. i'm really not sure what to expect...
hehe, and hug your mum for me >.<
i.... i gave advice to a friend the other day. She wants to do something with her life, be someone - you know, all the anxieties everyone goes through at pivotal moments in their live. I told her, that someone once said (can't remember who) that anything that is done well, is 90% passion, 10% talent. and i told her she has passion. everything else comes after that.
I know i have passion - i know that, i cannot deny that. art to me is like air, like sleep, like life and like night. its everything i find beautiful, its everything i believe in. i cannot deny my passion, just as you cannot deny yours. but i'm also an incredibly paranoid and anxious person. i do not cope well with stress, with pressure, with expectations. i would prefer.. just to be me, for me, not for everyone else. but, unfortunately, that cannot be right now. And... it feels like i'm off my axis. like i'm forcing something that i love.
and i don't like it.
and thats affecting my opinion of my work.
so... i needed you. i needed you to tell me, what you thought. and you did.
thank you, so much. for everything that you have ever done for me, for everything that you are still doing.
Thank you
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good structure especially the fingers... awesome.. nice work...
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Thank you so much
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Thank you so much!
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another nice drawing....i luv the muscle tone just as much as the last piece you did....seeing your latest may actually motivate me to finish some pics ive not worked on in a while...wtg
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haha, thank you! and i'm very honoured to be a source of motivation
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A fabulous job overall. Especially the muscles. Beautifully done.
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Thank you so much ^^
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