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Description Jacques de Maille - portrait sketch
October 30th 2012
Colored Pencil (and a wee bit of GIMP)

Here's yet another sketch, this time of our old friend Jacqusies from Crown of the World. I can't really bring myself to work on anything really time-consuming and super detailed simply because I can't seem to draw with any kind of real pizazz at the moment, though that comes and goes. Hopefully it'll come back sooner, rather than later, because I have projects to work on dagnabbit! So here it be. There's something a bit off with his eyes and his face, but otherwise this is generally how I imagine him. His eyes also didn't come out too well, so I put a little bit more light back into them with GIMP. And that be it, enjoy!
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Comments: 57

Theophilia In reply to ??? [2013-09-21 03:48:21 +0000 UTC]

Haius, I think your comments make me a little too happy. Like, grinning-like-an-idiot happy.

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haius In reply to Theophilia [2013-09-21 04:34:38 +0000 UTC]

YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE

Geoffrey might be pretty, but does he have eyes that can make a woman swoon from thirty feet?Β  No?Β  DIDN'T THINK SO.

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Theophilia In reply to haius [2013-09-25 22:35:38 +0000 UTC]



See? See?! This is exactly what I mean. You are awesome.

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RowanLewgalon [2013-01-29 14:13:50 +0000 UTC]

I can't tell you how much I love this picture.
It's amazing.

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Theophilia In reply to RowanLewgalon [2013-01-30 18:44:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!! I really like Jacques, and I want to draw him some more, and maybe I'll even do a little painting of him.

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RowanLewgalon In reply to Theophilia [2013-01-30 19:41:31 +0000 UTC]

I'm looking forward to it.

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Miscellani [2012-11-24 17:28:55 +0000 UTC]

These portraits are straight-up piercing. You've really improved a lot in the past... few years? Geez, I guess that's right. Anyway, wow.

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Theophilia In reply to Miscellani [2012-11-28 20:58:44 +0000 UTC]

THANK YOU!! I'm glad they've turned out that way!

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Ithelda [2012-11-19 03:00:40 +0000 UTC]

EYES. very intense.

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Theophilia In reply to Ithelda [2012-11-19 03:35:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Aranov [2012-11-08 01:23:34 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow. Hellooo gorgeous. Your men are all beautiful in the best possible way. I'm totally jealous of how you can tell he has lips, but they look like man lips, not awkwardly pink girl lips on a guy's face. And the beard is gorgeous. I still need to practice facial hair. x_x

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Theophilia In reply to Aranov [2012-11-18 22:44:49 +0000 UTC]

Hahah, well, shucks, thanks!

Beards aren't too bad, actually (at least with colored pencil). Lips are.

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Aranov In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-27 02:07:44 +0000 UTC]

Lips are always a pain. You're welcome!

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Drocan [2012-11-05 19:33:16 +0000 UTC]

I love the look of this one! I have been working on improving my own drawing techniques and the blend you have between realism and and comic book-ish design really resonates with me for some reason.
The digital version of your drawing also turned out really well, so whatever work you're doing in GIMP is working. A lot of times it's really difficult to make a photograph of a drawing do any sort of justice to the real thing.

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Theophilia In reply to Drocan [2012-11-07 17:35:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!! Well, if you're looking for improving your drawing style, I'd definitely recommend working on little projects like this. I've found it's been helping me tremendously, since I don't feel like I absolutely HAVE to make it come out perfect.

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GingerOpal [2012-11-03 02:45:19 +0000 UTC]

Holy handsomeness!

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Theophilia In reply to GingerOpal [2012-11-07 17:08:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Eosphora [2012-11-02 18:37:02 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, basically, anytime I leave a comment it's in shocked admiration and squee mood. XD He truly is very handsome Kind of how I imagine one of my characters but with pale skin... so of course, I love that drawing XD

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Theophilia In reply to Eosphora [2012-11-07 17:22:34 +0000 UTC]

Ooooohhhh!!! Your comments always make me squee with delight! Thank you!

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Eosphora In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-07 21:06:24 +0000 UTC]

Yey! You deserve every single one of them though, and even more

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Theophilia In reply to Eosphora [2012-11-07 21:47:01 +0000 UTC]

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Eosphora In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-07 22:32:28 +0000 UTC]

(I couldn't resist. I love that smiley XD)

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NickolieShepard [2012-11-02 04:31:06 +0000 UTC]

Vary nice I love your art and this piece is no different great job

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Theophilia In reply to NickolieShepard [2012-11-07 17:20:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! ^^

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nKhyi-naonZgo [2012-11-02 01:39:08 +0000 UTC]

Whatever you did to his eyes in GIMP, it seems to have worked. The blue is very striking.

The Chinese and several Native American groups thought white people were some kind of monster when they first met them (to this day the Cantonese for "white male", gwailou, means "monster man"), in part because bright blue eyes, when every other human you've ever seen has black ones, might as well be glowing red.

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Theophilia In reply to nKhyi-naonZgo [2012-11-07 17:22:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

Hah, their loss. I think blue eyes are the most beautiful color.

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nKhyi-naonZgo In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-10 04:29:38 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful, yes, but, if you've never seen blue eyes before, beautiful in a "holy moley, this thing is some kind of fairy-lord who will drag me off into another world if I'm not careful" sort of way. From the standpoint of the vast majority of the human race, red or yellow hair and green or blue eyes might as well be blue or green hair and red or yellow eyesβ€”humans don't come in those colors, except in Europe, and not even most of the time there.

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Theophilia In reply to nKhyi-naonZgo [2012-11-10 14:49:14 +0000 UTC]

I remember hearing/reading a similar thing about the Arab tribesmen and their idea of T.E. Lawrence. I don't know if he had blue eyes though. However, Peter O'Toole certainly does.

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BohemianBeachcomber [2012-11-01 01:55:31 +0000 UTC]

The eyes are great. Good job!

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Theophilia In reply to BohemianBeachcomber [2012-11-01 20:21:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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BohemianBeachcomber In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-02 04:05:35 +0000 UTC]

Yep!

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harumeau [2012-10-31 23:46:43 +0000 UTC]

You're getting really good with colored pencil Also, I saw the sketch of Malik on facebook...which model did you use as a reference? I'm just curious.

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Theophilia In reply to harumeau [2012-11-01 00:24:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I still think the Rhianna one is my favorite though.

Yeah, I didn't put that one up because I didn't really like it. But this is the guy: [link]

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harumeau In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-04 20:14:38 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, he does have an interesting face. I love it when I see random people and think "I want to draw their face" XD

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Theophilia In reply to harumeau [2012-11-04 22:26:40 +0000 UTC]

And then it's awkward because you want to try and take a picture, but that's totally not stalkerish at all and then you feel bad about wanting to take a picture of them because that's just creepy...yeah, I know the feeling. "Can I please just draw your face? I love it!"

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harumeau In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-11 20:15:38 +0000 UTC]

And then you just sort of gaze at them awkwardly/longingly and feel simultaneously weird and inspired.

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Theophilia In reply to harumeau [2012-11-11 21:54:51 +0000 UTC]

Amen.

#artistproblems

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harumeau In reply to Theophilia [2012-11-12 14:56:21 +0000 UTC]

We need our own set of memes. XD

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dashinvaine [2012-10-31 12:32:08 +0000 UTC]

Nicely done.

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Theophilia In reply to dashinvaine [2012-10-31 19:01:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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GothaWolf [2012-10-31 10:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Amazing! I love his eyes :3

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Theophilia In reply to GothaWolf [2012-10-31 19:00:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanksies!

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Naoru [2012-10-31 08:18:38 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful! Such gorgeous texture and little details, and I love the array of colours used to build up the image. I adore pencil images so much <3

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Theophilia In reply to Naoru [2012-10-31 19:00:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! Glad you like it!

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Eumeia [2012-10-31 02:15:23 +0000 UTC]

Amazing, I love it!

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Theophilia In reply to Eumeia [2012-10-31 04:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thanksies! ^^

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SaxonwithAxe [2012-10-31 01:31:42 +0000 UTC]

Jacques is awake at last!


I really like the expression you gave him; very choleric, proud, and alert. I don't see you use blue eyes on a lot of your close-up portraits, so I enjoy what you did here. Great lighting.
He has a certain edge that I saw in the book, but it was less pronounced...now that I think about it, this fits his character perfectly.

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Theophilia In reply to SaxonwithAxe [2012-10-31 01:50:26 +0000 UTC]

AND WITHOUT A SPANGENHELM!!



Mary was telling me that this is how Jacques needs to look: [link] I'm assuming he's supposed to beat people over the head with that baguette there. I think she wants (not so secretly either--since she straight up just told me this) to take a black marker to my sketchbook and give him a curly black moustache.

But thank you! I'm glad you're partial to my vision of Jacques. Not sure how Nathan feels about it yet though. He saw my sketch of him; and all he said was that it was "interesting" which could mean any number of things.

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SaxonwithAxe In reply to Theophilia [2012-10-31 04:13:02 +0000 UTC]

I'm always on my toes when he says that. "Interesting" is one of his catch-all phrases, but it usually means he'll think about it for awhile and email you about it in a few days with some very insightful observations.

You should do an alternate "Baguette Jacques". I would laugh, Nathan would be appalled, and Mary would rejoice. You've satirized Godfrey and Malik, so now Jacques gets a turn.

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Theophilia In reply to SaxonwithAxe [2012-11-10 16:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Hahah, after what we did with Godfrey, I'm sure Nathan's "appalled" level has significantly increased. Never underestimate two ladies with pen and paper (and photoshop ).

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