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been working on this one a couple of days -- been thinkin' 'bout doin' it for a couple monthscolored pencil on drawing paper
Edit1: not changing anything, just downsizing the image a little.
Edit2: did a little cropping of the image to center it and added a frame.
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Thank you very much for that wonderful compliment 
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"WHERE'S ALL THE RUM GONE!"
This is really good work and the colouring is perfect!
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Thanks muchly
I'm pretty pleased with how this came out . . . and it seems a lot of other people are too
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"WHERE'S ALL THE RUM GONE!"
This is really good work and the colouring is perfect!
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Heh, this is cool...I suck with colored pencils myself (usually). Anyways...great job, the nose seems just a tad off to me, but that could just be me. ^^ great job!
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I love the detail, accuracy, character and color in this. Not only is the likeness fantastic and the lighting natural, the brilliant colors of his headband and beads warm up his skin tones perfectly.
I'm impressed with the skin tones. They are amazing. It's very hard getting skin tones well in coloured pencils, it drove me nuts sometimes, and this is wonderful. The little braids in his beard and the details just fit -- it's not overworked or overdetailed but the details are striking.
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It took me a long time to figure out how best to do skin tones with colored pencil
Doing the lighter color over the shadows also blends the shadows into the skin tones -- sometimes I have to touch up the shadows a bit over the lighter colors, but usually not.
I've found that working from the darkest colors up really works well for most shading with colored pencils, not only in skin tones . . . at least for me anyway
I used two different pics for this drawing . . . the second one for the beads on the far side of his head. I'm especially pleased with how the beads came out in this drawing
And thanks muchly for the
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That is so great! And thanks for your detailed color listing. I referred another friend to this piece and to your comments and mentioned the colors you used -- because that burnt sienna followed by burnt umber (or another dark cold brown, in my Verithins set it's just Dark Umber) is the perfect solution to the "too orangy" middle tones I've seen on a lot of colored pencil portraits.
I work from darkest colors up too, though sometimes I use lighter colors in the darkest shadows and work over them. It depends how much I'm going to layer it, but if I'm feeling cautious I'll use the lightest color to fill in the darkest dark areas in the sketch and just work over things, then burnish with a related light color or the colorless burnisher. I love the colorless burnisher -- if Derwent doesn't make one, maybe the Prismacolor Colorless Burnisher will work well with Derwent pencils because most colored pencils are close enough in formula to be used in the same piece.
You're tempting me to try one, when I finish Verithins Violets. I need to eventually do a self portrait for a Deviant ID, and maybe colored pencil is the right medium!
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I hope it's helpful to them.
Do you know, I've only ever once drawn myself? 
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Those charts are a joke. You're so right. I know very few people who actually have that physique -- and some of THEM weigh in too heavy on those charts if they are remotely athletic, not Schwarzenegger-muscled but just active?
I have done self portraits before. When I worked as a street artist I did one in a sketchbook because I went to a convention that had a dealer with "Your picture on a T-shirt" with a digital videocamera set up running to a printer to print out transfers for the t-shirts. I had my booth right near that booth, and while doing my turn at night security got bored and started drawing myself from my image in the monitor because the lighting in the dealer's room was strong and directional. It looked cool and I had nothing better to do, so that one wound up very detailed in graphite. I did a few others but not as detailed as that one, and recall that doing it helped me understand some things about shadows on faces that I'd had trouble with doing actors' faces. Mostly that was because I could pose under the kind of lighting the reference photos had.
I've been putting it off for lack of good lighting in my room but I might drag my chair over in front of the mirror and try it sometime soon. I lost a lot of weight and do not quite look like my avatar photo any more.
The cool thing in portraits, any portraits, is that even when you get very realistic they are flattering. The process lends itself to that. And in a self-portrait where you control the lighting and the color key and all, it is even easier to do something that's cool looking -- and an expression of who you are as much as what your features look like. I did a series of photo self portraits in black and white on my webcam that were fun by messing around with a candle and a dark room.
Hmm. That is the other thing I could do -- use my digital camera instead of my old webcam, but try that again. Shut down all the other lights, do it at night and get a reference shot by candlelight that gives me the very strong lighting that makes it easy to draw. Then mess around with where the candle is and my expression till it looks cool, then have a photo ref and not need to sit there that long. It's a possibility. It's been harder with not being able to see what I'm doing while I take it, using the good camera.
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Yeah, like Tom Cruise is well conditioned and muscular, and they consider him overweight
I did my self-portrait from one of those photo-booth shots . . . y'know, the ones that give you a strip of 4 photos?
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I've noticed that on those charts they go up by very small, very regular increments while people's body types vary in groups -- and muscular people who are remotely active can be lean as anything and wind up seriously overweight, while anyone whose genes give them a heavy build can sometimes reach the target weight and still be carrying considerable padding.
The charts haven't changed for a very long time and the body fat ratio gets calculated by weight and height -- not by other factors, because those are harder to measure with a scale and a measuring tape. What happens is that when the muscle to fat ratio goes up, people get dense and weigh a lot more than a flabby person at target weight, especially if that person doesn't have heavy bones. The "big-boned" descriptor really comes into it too, sometimes dramatically. But that doesn't get factored into the charts.
I found out by years and years of hearing people my size tell me what they weighed that I weigh a whole lot more than my pants size. By about 30lb. It was very weird, and I do have a fairly stable weight range -- it's something that I pushed my way down out of in high school and actually got sick, while still oddly having a few fat deposits in places my genes put them. I found out only a few years ago that scoliosis causes unusual bone density and became very glad that I got fed up with trying to lose weight instead of relaxing about it.
Trial and error, when I stopped worrying about what I ate, I lost weight and felt better, but never got down into the numbers that my height was supposed to be.
Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger or even the average jogger is going to weigh a whole lot more than the charts say they should.
It took meeting a lot of French tourists and people with French descent for me to realize that the charts are based on a historical accident. France happened to get a textile industry in the middle ages, and France has been the fashion culture ever since -- so fashion is geared to the build of the people who grew up in that region, designs are tailored very often to the build of people with centuries of that industry behind them, and everything looks better on them unless specifically designed for other groups because that's what those local experts would want for something to be flattering. It gets ludicrous.
I recently saw a commercial for a weight loss product with some tiny female bragging about dropping from a size 10 to a size 3 -- and I was blinking in confusion because I've seen size 3 clothing, it's not quite adult. It's the size that twelve and thirteen year old girls wear before they're quite adult size, the leggy stage of female adolescence. I found myself wondering how short she was, because her proportions did look adult. But that commercial was intended to freak out fit healthy slender women into thinking they were fat on account of dress size.
My sister's a size twelve, she dieted once and size ten was her goal. Seemed reasonable, she's not that heavy, she was just a normal sized woman.
Guys meanwhile take weight gainers and work out to look like Schwarzenegger and then doctors grimly tell them to get thinner, which would knock all the muscle off and defeat the purpose if they're putting that much work into being beach hunks.
The longer I draw and paint, the easier it is to see any human being as looking cool if they're well dressed and like themselves.
In a number of online rants I often post that appearances aren't even appearances. I wear black all the time, usually loose baggy comfortable stuff, especially baggy because I did lose a lot of weight after I moved here -- put it on during a prolonged convalescence with good food and it came off in a few months of short rations waiting for food stamps. But even when I was heavier, people inevitably underguess my weight by a large proportion and overestimate my height at the same time because I'm coming off weird, geeky, longhaired and wearing black and talking deep thoughts -- so the mind fills in Maynard G. Krebs, Neo, whoever, whatever brainy tall drink of water in black all the movies pounded in and they don't actually see the short crooked reality. My disabilities went unnoticed for decades because while I never stood up straight, I look people in the eye and my body language is relaxed but confident, so they assume I must be standing straight because I'm confident and confident people have straight backs. It's very weird.
Its down side is that if I'm sick people see me as looking worse than I do, how good I look is so proportional to my body energy at the moment -- for most people. Not for portrait artists who can distinguish facial structure from expression, to you I'd probably just look sick when I'm sick. lol
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Wow, I really love the warm colours you used. And the beadings are very detailed too. Love it!! Well done!
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Thanks very much
Actually, the beads are one of the things I'm especially pleased with in this drawing.
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Yeah I think so too, it's a great job.
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ahh hes so sexie!! 
Such a great movie
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Thanks
Yeh, 'Pirates of the Caribbean' has become one of my favorite movies.
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Wow. I am really impressed with the detail that you put into this peice.
good job.
[//Yami]
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Thanks very much
I'm pretty pleased with it myself
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wow thats awsome! excellent shading and higlights ^_^
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Thank u
and thanks muchly for the
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np, it is a nice piece ^_^
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Wow! What alot of comments. They've said everything I was thinking. But it is a realy good piece of work. I love it.
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Thanks
I was very pleased with this drawing -- it took me a little over two days to do it and that's a long time for me. This Johnny Depp portrayal has become one of my favorite characters, with the movie in my list of all time favorites. It's such a wonderful romp
Thanks for the
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I'm in absolute Love with Johnny Depp. I've seen everything he's done so far . I love your pic.
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I don't like everything he does, but he does everything very well indeed.
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Oh! he's so cute! what a wonderful job at capturing something so great to begin with!
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Thank you muchly
This is, I think, one of my best drawings
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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
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Oh, good, now I know ALL the words
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thank you muchly
that movie has definately become one of my all time favorites -- mainly because of Johnny Depp's wonderful portrayal of a likeable rogue
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thanks
this has become one of my favorite movies
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Wow that is an awesome drawing
You did a great job on the details, shading and blending
He has a great facial expression, the look in his eyes is so intense
Wonderfully done
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thanks very much
I'm glad you like it
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It doesn't look so much like Johnny but it's a great picture anyway, I like the colouring.
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