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Published: 2011-06-01 06:07:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 2824; Favourites: 79; Downloads: 0
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Twiggy - the famous skinny teenage model, a singer and an actress, she was the leading English model of the 60's who popularize the brand new and revolutional androgynous looks that has been very influential among supermodels since then. In 1966, she was named βThe Face of 1966β by the Daily Express and voted British Woman of the Year.Related content
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Really really good! Love that you didn't stop when you'd made the portrait done, but that you took time to do the little dots in the background too.
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Thanks for the encouragement, there's so much to learn, I'll keep doing my best!
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The portrait wasn't too difficult, it took me about a couple of hours to do, but the dots of the background really took me a long time, I think a whole day...
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What exactly did you use to draw the lines? It looks like a pen or sharpie marker.
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A sharpie marker..., to be more precise it is a very common 0.1mm drawing pen, any brand will do. They're cheap and versatile, I usually use Unipin or Pilot Drawing pen. Artline is even cheaper, but it's ink isn't water-proof.
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Thanks for commenting, I'll keep doing my best!
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Twiggie!!!
Hey! I missed your art a lot!!! This is great, i love the detail, I love her eyes, I love everything
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Sorry for waiting so long, I'm actually working out with several works that I need further touch-up. Thanks again for collecting it. How's your day going, do you enjoy the new job?
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Thanks again, and good to see you again! I'm so glad that you like it.
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That's a beautiful portrait of her. I love her expression.
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I thought Twiggie's skinny appearance don't really attract people , but it seems like many people still like her today. Thanks again for your support, I really appreciate it. How's your day going?
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I think she was very pretty in her younger days, but I think she looks pretty good today too. I mean she's now 60 or something.
Sorry, for the late reply, I was a bit stressed. I'm good and how are you?
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Some people goes prettier when they are older, they weren't that pretty when they were young. Cher is another good example, althought we can simply say that the surgery contributed all of that. We've seen many cases like that. Sometimes the age doesn't always relate to the beauty of a face, it depends on how do we feel that and it's really hard to determine. Fashion, trend, make-up, etc, can always perform magic towards people's face. There are many Japanese female celebritiues just like that as well.
Anyway, I'm pretty good recently. do you have any recent commitment?
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That's true. I often see that men often get prettier or just better looking when they get older. You're right, the fashion and make up style can perform a lot. I think those big 80s hair looked horrible.
Yes, I have an exam at the end of June.
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I agree with you. The 80's hairstyle was an attempt to imitate and remodify those late 60's hairstle, but not very successful, therefore they don't influence the future and people judge them as horrible. The 80's fashion, especially female, was the same case. Only punk fashion still remain a cult following among certain people in recent days. But I don't think the 80's deserves every bad treatment, the era had it's own impressive way as well. The rise of domestic and individual micro-electronic products (Walkman, Karaoke, Hi-fi Stereo, CD, VCR, etc) and computer tech is a notable feat of the 80's, the use of powerful sythesizer in pop music and the rise of heavy metal and hard rock are still influencing people nowadays. But overall the 80's wasn't as good as any previous era, people know 60's and 70's a lot than 80's, whenever I visit a music store I can easily find anything from 50's to 70's, but finding 80's stuff is pretty much like finding Martian..., perhaps it was an era that creates cult following rather than create vintage classic, that's my point of view.
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Don't get me wrong, I think the 80s were a pretty cool era (Although I didn't grow up then, because I was born in the late 80s), I just think the hair style was horrible. I have to admit that I think the hippie style in the 70s looked worse. I love the music from the late 70s and the 80s. The punk and goth style still inspires many people. I don't know why people say that the fashion from the 80s looked so bad, I must say that I think the 90s fashion was pretty horrible.
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Yes, I saw people gave the same comment elsewhere, the 80's fashion and hairstyle was somewhat cumbersome, have you seen those female fashion? the cutting was poor, too much concentration was put on the shoulder, making all 80's girls had a very broad shoulder and upper body like guys, the fashion itself disregarded the beautiful slimmy body shape of women but instead expanding the size so that that everyone seems wearing oversized cloth, making the whole body broad and square like a sandwich man. The thick and fluffy hair only made it worse. That was meaningless. The hippie and funk were another bad idea, they looked primitive and uncivilized, and the guys had long untidy hair and thick beard making them like cavemen, but the contemporary female fashion was very impressive. The 80's was somewhat more fancy but still failed. The 90's was repeating the problem of 80's but from 1995 onwards until now, people recycle and mix up everything from the past, but the 80's and 90's have not been the first choice, instead people choosing things from 50's to 70's (do you own a platform shoe? ^_^), even something as old as late 19th century. This contibuted to the accomplishment to shaping the postmodern fashion and hairstyle, so, the ultimate winners are those before the 80's...
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Oh god, I hate those shoulder thingies they put under they jackets (how do you call them in englisch anyway?). 
I really owned some platform shoes (the ones which were extra high). I got them when I was 11 or 12, my mom bought them for me, although she thought they looked like crap. For god's sake the 90s were over one year later.
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See, I knew you have platform shoes. The thing at the shoulder is simply called shoulder pads! I saw one fashion website says: " Shoulder pads may very well be the worst of the top 10 80s fashion fads. In fact, our online polls on this site indicate that you agree with that assessment, with an overwhelming majority of our site visitors rating shoulder pads as the worst of the fashions of the 1980s. Why on earth did we want to make our shoulders look bigger?". See that comment? Platform shoes may look like crap, but a little remodification, such as streamlining and adjusting the height, can still make it as impressive as those sexy and glamorous high heel shoes. In most Asian countries, girls still wear platform shoes, in my place they are still pretty common among young females. So it's a successful design. But the shoulder pad is a totally different story, it was totally useless and meaningless, not to mention about any remodification attempt.
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I think the platform shoes with nice heels do not look bad. They can look pretty good, but those from the 90s looked like those strange clown shoes, they were on parades to be bigger. Shoulder pads! Thank you for telling me that. Maybe the women in the 80s wanted to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator". Big shoulder look good on men, but not on small, tiny girls or women.
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Like the website says: "Maybe it had something to do with woman's lib and the assertion of power that women were beginning to have in the work place". The rise of career women in the 80's was probably the reason. I think the shoulder pad was probably inspired by military and police officer uniforms where stars and stripes on the shoulder tell the rank and status (people respect military officers in the old time, so do ancient China and Japan where people respect warlords, generals and warriors). But that was still meaningless, women don't need fashion to label their capabilities. Such a lousy innovation only creates a negative effect.
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That sounds possible, but you're right it still doesn't look good. Women shouldn't try to look like man or trying to be a man.
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Nowadays sex is no longer something particular, people are getting more inclined to be metrosexual and unisexual. In Japan there are bras and skirts for guys = 
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Oh no, not unisex, that's so boring. Bras for guys? Oh my god, I've never heard about that, but sounds pretty strange.
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This is no longer something new, it was the Japanese who popularize it. Google bras for men and you will see a lot of funny but interesting stuff. In fact those male bras were originally design for certain men who has developed breast (especially fat guy), but in Japan it is a new fashion! I recall a news saying that male bras raise self-confidence among certain men, pretty much like women puts shoulder pads to show their equality with men back in the 80's! There are many Japanese men put on make-ups, wear skirts and holding handbag, they are not necessary sissy, or playing drag, cross-dressing or gay in any sense since those skirts and whatever accessories are custom-made exclusively for men! There's a myth that men wearing such female stuff are more acceptable by female. This makes their female friends more likely to hang around with them just like sisters! I don't know where they get that idea from but Japanese are always weird in many sense.
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Thanks again for the feature, I really appreciate your effort. Enjoy!
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Stunning! She is so beautiful.
added to my faves
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Many thanks for collecting it, I really appreciate yur support! I watch you back!
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Your'e welcome and many thanks for watching me.
I really meant what I have said and I'd love to see more
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I have never been a Twiggie fan, but your work makes her face look so beautiful. You lines are so bold and precise. Wonderful job as always. Keep it up!
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To be serious, her image doesn't seem attractive in every sense, makes her pretty much like suffering from anorexia, and yet her image has been very influential among supermodels until now.
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Thanks for commenting. Feel free to be my guest anytime, I watch you too!
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I agree. 
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