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Published: 2010-06-12 13:42:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 2088; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 117
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Finally finished the drawing of Aaron Kelly from Season 9 on American Idol.I'm really glad to finish this one. It felt like it took forever, and I wasn't very motivated once I got finished shading half of his face.
I tend to get less excited about drawing hair and clothing once I finish the eyes and the rest of the face. I get lazy at that point, as most people can probably tell. haha
Anyway.
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this guy is an amazing singer!
amercian idol is running a bit late in my country (of course) than America
but I can see how amazing he's!
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Aww well thank you 
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welcome!
like he's so shy and that's doesnt seam to ruin his vocal perfomance!
I just hate when Simon start to bug him! -.-
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Aww Aaron is very shy. He's young though, so he has a reason to be. Although, he's really a great singer, so he should develop more confidence. I'm sure he will though
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I still don't know anything about American Idol, but this is excellent! Seriously, your version of getting lazy is incredibly better than mine. I'm not too good with hair. I just haven't really practised it much I think.
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Haha, yeah, I get lazy with hair and stuff. It's a bit sad. I read this one artist's portrait tutorial or something a long, long time ago and it said, "You should spend as much time on the hair as you do the entire face."
and I was like "
I guess I just get tired of looking at the drawing and just get eager to finish it.
Practice always helps, from portrait to portrait. It's worth it though.
Thank you very much!
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What I don't get is that you were lazy with the hair, and yet it still turned out really wonderful... Hmmm...?
I can only conclude you must be awesomely talented!
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Aww, haha. Thank you very much!
You're very sweet, and I appreciate it.
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I don't know him but this drawing is really great! How did you shade the skin and the background? ;_; If I scan my drawings, the whole shading is gone =.= Or most of it... Hate it
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This drawing was actually a lot different shading wise for me since the one side of his face was extremely dark in the reference photo.. So that meant I had to shade a lot darker than usual on it.
For the background, I just put a layer of pencil quickly across all of it. I am pretty sure it was a 2B pencil here. Then, I just used a blender on it.. I believe it is a pastel blender, but I just tested it for some reason on the pencil one day. Since it was quick, I continued using it. It's actually supposed to be a pastel "shaper", but since I never use pastels, so found a better use for it.
I got it in this set: [link]
The one I used for smudging the background of this drawing is the one on the far left.. the tip is like plastic-like almost.. so it smudges around pencil lead quite easily... I just used it to smudge the pencil lead all around in different directions and such. Some parts I did a circle motion to smudge it, and then other parts I just went straight across.
When I scan my drawings, the contrast is way off. If you use photoshop or any other photo editing software, it's good to change the brightness and contrast a bit. You might know to do that already, but if you don't, it's a good tip. 
I hope that will help a bit.
and thank you!
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I know what you mean! I have a few unfinished portraits laying around my room for similar reasons. Clothing can be so boring and drawing strands of hair can take awhile. 
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I rarely have unfinished portraits laying around that I end up finishing later on... this one I more-or-less had to finish, so I did. haha
Luckily I only started this one a 2 or 3 weeks ago, so it wasn't like it had been sitting around 3 or 4 months... those are the hardest to finish.
and thank you! I appreciate it!
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You're welcome!
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you're so good
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I'm glad it looks like him. 
Thank you very much for the support on it.
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oh wow very nice drawing!
I'm also almost done with my drawing of Aaron
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oooh I want to see your drawing when you post it!
and thank you!
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you're welcome!
I will send you the link when it's ready
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Aww great! Thanks! I'm excited to see it
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aww.
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