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Hermann Hesse, writer. B on really thick bristol (4 ply?).Related content
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I like the ears--they're appropriately elf-like.
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I did ... sort of. I was unhappy that I'd made some mistakes in the proportions: I think although it looks human, it's not a good likeness. I felt I'd worked it to a point where it was reasonably finished, but it didn't merit further effort.
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Insanely good! Do you always draw only with lower B's? 
and Herman Hesse rocks! XD
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Thanks: yes, I use just a B now, though I do use different thicknesses of lead, usually 0.3 and 0.9.
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ah, so you use mechanical pencils? hmmm... I use totally normal pencils... mostly high B's.... maybe I should try your way too. how long do you take for a picture?
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Oh try mechanicals - they are so much better once you get used to them. Even the cheapest ones that you pick up from a dollar store work really well.
I'd say I take ... maybe 5 hours or so on average for a drawing. There have been a few that were longer - generally the longer, the better the result. I think I could be more efficient - I've been trying a 2mm clutch pencil recently in place of the 0.9 to try and get more graphite down in less time.
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Okay (adds mechanical pencil to her improvement list)
5 hours, that looks shorter than for the most other artists that I watch, but still... I envy your patience, I finish usually max. after 2 hours, mostly 60-90 minutes, if its not done then, I get very, very impatient which you can usually see in the quality of hair and clothes which come at last for me. And I cannot pick up on a drawing after one sit, means when I stop drawing on one day, I won't keep up the work again later. I do not know exactly why, I simply cannot, it feels like I would betray myself from yesterday by editing the drawing today XD
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For me, doing it in shorter stints is a key part. I think it's really good after you've done a stint of drawing to just prop your drawing up, maybe with the ref next to it and take some time to admire it 
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Ah, okay... I put it on my list. Sounds reasonable, and Tanathiel says rougly the same, so it must be a key point for successfull drawing.
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wow! excellent pencil work
if you like hermann hesse you possibly like my enlighted hesse too. have a look!
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Another amazing portrait in just B graphite... I'm so impressed.
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Hey, wasn't this the same guy who wrote that fictional Siddhartha book?
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Amazing. I love the detail of his face and the reflection in his glasses.
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I love his writing and that you made a portrait of him.
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He, he. Well I am a bit of a fraud. I've only read Steppenwolf and I didn't much care for that, but it was for my wife really.
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This is a fabulous portrait that portrays the character of the man and the reflections on the glasses is great!
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this is really good! all the wrinkles and details! awesome job!
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Your picture is feature at our club journal
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bad scan or no this is a richly detailed drawing.
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This must be a photo...outstanding piece. I would say the best in your gallery
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Ah, I do like a bit of Hesse. I think Narziss and Goldmund is my favourite... or Demian (which is essentially the same story, I guess). Great drawing!
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"Narcissus and Goldmund" is my favorite too! We need drawings of all those characters next--the main ones of course, but also all the beautiful women...
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He, he. I can't comment there. I am a fraud and I just don't read non-fiction. I did read Steppenwolf when I was in my teens, but I didn't get it.
Adele 'commissioned' me to do a drawing. She wanted Joyce because she was reading Finnigan's Wake, but I couldn't find any good Joyce photos. So I turned to photos of the creepy guys she keeps pinned to the monitor: Neitzsche, Sartre, Hughes, Larkin, Beckett, and Hesse (and I included Proust, as I'd just bought her "À la recherche du temps perdu" for her birthday).
Turns out the best ref I could find was for Hermann (I've told at least one person it was a drawing of Rudolf Hesse, by mistake
I might be tempted by the glass bead game. Have you read that? According to Adele, you're supposed to read Hesse chronologically (not that she has).
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No, haven't read that one, thought I do have a copy somewhere about and I've heard good things about it. I can see why it'd be smart to read Hesse chronologically, seeing as most of his novels seem to represent steps in the evolution of a few central ideas... social isolation, the veneration of the mother figure, yadda yadda yadda... Pfft, I dunno man, I'm just an art student
All this talk of Adele's excellent taste in literature reminds me that I owe you some commissions. I haven't fogrotten! I'm just... well, I guess 'bone-idle' pretty well covers it.
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