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Published: 2011-06-30 07:22:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1870; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 25
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I finally got around to watching True Grit a few nights ago, and had to draw this afterward. It was a compulsion. The movie was amazing. The Coen brothers are incredible.Lately I've been playing around with doing sketches on my computer rather than on paper (I've been posting a lot of the sketches on my blog if anyone is interested - dansartblog.blogspot.com). I started this one as a quickie last night, but it just kept growing so I decided to post it.
Hope you all enjoy.
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This is awesome. Love the gritty look of this. Kind of a departure for you, no?
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Yeah. Definitely a departure. I did the drawing entirely on the computer, and I think that was one of the first times I've done that.
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One of the reasons I really want to get me a Cintique. Just for the experimentation and exploration alone.
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Oh man. I want one of those so bad. I try not to think about it, or I'll go crazy.
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I love the style, and you caught his personality so perfectly! Great stuff.
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Thanks! I was playing around with a new style, so I'm glad to hear it that it worked.
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Fantastic film-- a work of art.
I like the rough texture of the lines in this-- definitely a departure of your usual style, and very fitting of the subject matter. Really cool sketch.
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Thanks! Sometimes I wonder if all of my "departures from my usual style" get a bit distracting... but I'm just so ADHD about illustration styles.
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Exploration is always a good thing. Making art would be boring without it.
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cool sketches man
and indeed, fukin great movie
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Thanks man! Thanks for checking out the blog too. I keep trying to slowly switch to the blog rather than devart... but devart is just so much easier for everybody.
And, yes... it was SO awesome.
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same here, i try to put more art over at the blog rather than on DA
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THAT is an amazing movie and I just rewatched it last week. (I was in Arizona with my boyfriend and his family and we all wanted to watch a good Western.) Great caricature! I love the perspective and the texture too.
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Thank you much!
Honestly it was almost exactly a screenshot from the movie. There was one shot in the film that was just SO cool, and luckily I found a screen cap.
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Haha, yeah, well I've been there tons of times so no harm no foul. It still has plenty of your own pizazz, anyway.
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Excellent! Thanks.
I'm always really paranoid doing a drawing directly from a screenshot... in fact, I think this is the first time I've done it... this time the shot was just SO cool though. I couldn't resist.
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Great drawing! I really like the quality of the line work in this piece.
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Thanks! It's a new style for me so I'm glad to hear that people enjoy it!
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It's good isn't it!!
I can't believe I put off watching it for as long as I did. It's amazing.
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Soooo good. I love the cinematography. And the score! It was so simplistic and only included a handful of songs if that. I completely forgot that Matt Damon was Matt Damon and totally invested in the character, and that freaking scene when that young guy gets his fingers chopped off and stabbed, Guh! So awesome. ...Oh, and that guy in the bear skin.
Westerns, gotta love um'.
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Yeah! Damon was really surprisingly good in that movie. He fit in well with all of the other ridiculous Coen brothers actors. I was a little skeptical when I first heard he was in the film, but it was pretty seamless.
It's funny how everybody's voice in the movie had so much character too. Damon's was the least ridiculous until he went and half bit his tongue off. It was almost like an initiation into being a Coen actor.
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Haha! Exactly, I thought so too. God damn, I'll have to watch that again soon.
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I have to say, I really enjoyed Jeff Bridges take on Rooster Cogburn. Great pic!
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Yeah. He was SO good. I like how much actors seem to open up and act a bit silly in Coen brothers movies.
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Oh man, oh man! INSTANT fave. I freaking love that movie (as I knew I would) and I had a feeling that eventually you would draw something True Grit-related. And you did not disappoint. This is wicked cool. I LOVE the line art; it almost looks like felt-tip marker. But I know it's not. Which makes it cooler.
Now I'm rambling. Good job, sport.
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haha. If it's Coen Brothers, than I will draw it. I still have to figure out a Hudsucker and Miller's Crossing drawing (I just found Miller's Crossing for less than $5 yesterday! Hurray!)
Thanks! I'm glad you like the line art style. I've been having a bit of fun with that for the last week. Hopefully I can get good at it and take a step out of the whole illustrating process.
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Thank you sir!
It's been nice actually having a month off to watch these movies and do a bit of drawing. It's going to be rough going back to the study schedule.
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bad ass! Love the new stype of digital art. Looks amazing.
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Thanks man! Glad to hear it. I always wonder if my illustrative experimentations get a bit distracting.
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This is great! I love the movie too. It's actually quite funnier the second time around. Especially Matty Damon. Anyways love your take and style on Rooster. I'm faving...yeah I said it.
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Yeah, that's the beauty about Coen brothers films, they just keep getting better and better!
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Me too! It even surpassed my expectations, and I had HIGH expectations.
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Nice work. I've been reading the original novel by Charles Portis myself.
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Yeah? Does the movie take quite a lot of liberties, or is it relatively close to the novel?
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I'd say the 2011 version is mostly faithful to the book. I haven't seen the 1969 version, but from what I have seen, it takes more creative license.
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awesome art! I'm watching a coen brothers movie as i look at this "The Hudsucker Proxy"
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Oh very nice! I love that movie. One of their must unsung flicks but it's one of my absolute favorites.
Thanks!
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Yeah man it was great and your welcome but my favorite fick by them has to be "Barton Fink"
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That movie was SO strange. I think I have to give it another viewing.
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haha I didn't think it was weird (Well I seen most David Lynch movies) but John Godman is a scary man when he wants to be haha
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Oh no. You said the magic words. I can't even read the name "David Lynch" without flinching. I watched Lost Highway in a cabin in the middle of the woods with a few friends of mine years ago... and afterwards we were seriously about ready to murder each other.
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Lost Highway is great! random bit about that Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Remirez make cameos as the male porn stars in the video they watch twords the end of the movie haha. Have you seen Lynch's "Blue Velvet"?
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Urgh. I just can't stand his movies. There is something about them that just creeps me out. Sometimes it feels a bit more like watching his weird fetishes than an actual movie.
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I hear ya haha but I love experimental movies and music so that stuff attracts me like Rednecks to Nascar.
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