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You know there's something to be said for how beautiful anything blue is, when used in a sketchy context. Especially to suggest the gentleness of the individual.
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wow, the blue does give the character a gentle personality 
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I still question the general use of an outline. takes away from the realness of it. unless you are going for a slight cartoony feel to it?
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you're right... hmm
perhaps if i try and avoid line altogether i can achieve a more realistic result
(not many of us walk around with lines drawn on our faces haha)
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right when I was in my drawing class my teacher would always comment that we dont have black lines outlining our face. It is fine to sketch guidelines in there lightly but your shading lines will define the edge of what you are drawing. The color or shade you are going for with your lines will make its own basically is what I mean. if the background is darker it will make what appears to be an outline. I always found it helpful to mentally note the contrast of the two edges you were working with to make sure they were true to color differentiation (if only working with charcoal shade differentiation) Our minds want to put outlines on everything. It is how we simplify things, however to break that habit referencing your subject, I find, helps a lot. Do not listen to what your brain is visualizing to be there, but actually tell yourself what you see by constantly looking at what you are drawing and not the page where you are drawing it. Draw what you see not what your brain fills in out of habit. Make sense? this also helps with hand eye coordination. You should not need to look at your drawing paper anymore than necessary. This will keep your proportions more accurate as well. I use a drawing stick as a means to visually compare and reference different aspects of what I am drawing. using my eye I will measure sizes, angles, or anything else to keep it accurate. It is a very useful tool.
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wow, thanks for the educational reply mara
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you are most welcome! only trying to help
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i think where i'm worst with cartoon like lines is with noses.. i noticed recently that when i start drawing a face, there's always a line following the length of the nose (so i'll start there with trying to avoid that) darn nose lines lol
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I have noticed that however break the habit by instead of drawing a line there defining the background if it happens to be darker. if not shade the nose according to how you see it. the whole face has shadows. you need to assign them with a value according to how dark they are. 1 being really light (depending on how many shading options you have) 5 being the darkest. I tend to use 10 values with my graphiteΒ pencils especially.
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Wow, what a wonderful sketch‘‘ love it‘‘
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thank you my friend
where i believe i succeeded was with structure likeness to the model
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I think it's just gorgeous‘‘ Not everybody is able to say so much with so little Β
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thank you 
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It's really really good, indeed
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Looks good.
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This is really great! I love how sketchy it is overall. In one of the other comments I saw that you said the model was black, and I think maybe to make that more clear the area around his temple and cheeks could be darker to show that overall his skin is darker, not just in shadow. Really nice work though
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thank you
perhaps i could make corrections digitally,
as i've never been fond of returning to traditional drawings...
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I know how you feel. I like to go back to digital work, but for some reason I don't like to with traditional.
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i'm not alone!
i'm not quite sure how to explain my digital addiction,
perhaps it's the simple undos, the ease of cleaup...
mainly i think it's a general fascination with technology.
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looks great, I love the way you captured the lighting on his forehead and around the eyes.
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thanks BC
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Nice work! I like the subtle look down and the shading with lines. I tend to do to much soft shades with pencils... lately i have decided to work more with ink to force myself using lines^^
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thanks grindG 
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thanks man
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Hi
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hello
thank you dawn 
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this is really really really nice! great line quality!
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thanks!
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