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Published: 2016-06-14 02:22:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 441; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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This is a graphite drawing on normal archival paper, pretty standard size, matted on black. It's a weave drawing i've been known to do from time to time--. I think this one is between a wine glass and a hair model.I like to do these every now and again and I've been wondering if I should spend more time doing realistic pencil drawings and less photoshop stuff. What do you think?
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Ah~! Thank you very much! Most of my best stuff is in black and white!
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Really great work and very interesting to look at. Beautiful!
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Thank you very much~!
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I'm glad you do! I'll be selling prints of this if you're interested in putting my work on a wall~! lol.
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Β very cool you should be super proud of this
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Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
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Thank you!
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This is amazing, I would like to get into this kind of art, got any tips?
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Hi! Sure, i'd love to give you some tips and talk about how I produced this piece:
This is the process:
I tell people to take magazines and cut them into long, horizontal strips-- just make sure that you use the entire page and your strips are evenly thick. Afterwords, take another photo with interesting things on the side of the page, nearly opposite to the center of focus of the first page you just cut up and cut that new page into horizontal strips. (note you may have some extra bits of paper, this is normal, just make sure the cuts are even and you can lay the pieces down next to each other. then discard oddly shaped pieces)
Weave the two pages you've turned into strips into one single piece. (I'd use a piece of clear tape to anchor one strip down at one end onto a piece of backing board as support. This will save you when it tries to fall apart when you try to move it the first time) Now all you need to do is just weave it evenly. Once it's done, you can then undo and move weaves to increase or reduce the eye's focus on the interesting bits of the faces or other parts of the focus. Use the second page to sort of "fill-in" some of the negative space areas where you would have nothing really interesting to look at. (You can even remove whole sections of unused strip
For example: with this image there was a lot of hair (because it was a picture of a hair-model) and because that's not interesting to look at or draw, I chose another picture that was balanced exactly the opposite to the first. (I cant stress this enough, this is the key to these types of works.)
Also-- try to step back and think about where the eye is going in your image-- these weaves can be hard to keep the eye where you want. (These are things i learned the hard way, as this picture is a second attempt!) Careful not to accidentally draw your viewers eye off the page!
When you set up your canvas make sure you measure 3 times before you draw the grid that matches the sizes of your strips. Do the math, make sure it's perfect-- this step is also key and will MESS YOUR DAY UP if you don't do it right. Once this is down correctly, try drawing in the details in the boxes starting from the biggest most complete parts down to the individual squares that are periodically spaced to break up your image.
From here it's all about producing good art! Don't be afraid to scrap a piece and try again!
I hope this helps!Β
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Thanks, I've been getting into portraits recently, this is cool
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thanks a lot! these pieces always come out pretty ok! i dunno if its the grid format or what.
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Daaaamn that's too good!! 
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tbh-- a lot of people have told me to drop the animation and go back to realism. I've been doing some sketching and I think i may have to agree... though-- vg and anime based things are still my favorite thing to draw-- despite being bad at it.
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Let me tell you something: you can mix both styles and see the awesome result!
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I might try that with something Undertale related later tonight.
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