Nice drawing.

Thank you mikron and thanks Hunterkiller

It is a very good start! I would only say more shadows on the face and head, and soften out the lines if you want realism. There aren't many definite lines in a face or shirt, more of shadows. You have the right idea though!

I heard from an artist I admired once that bald people are the hardest to draw. I find them more fun, personally. Kudos.

I think you can be a believer of both, and I am. Being Roman Catholic myself I learned about His creation and evolution, and it's funny it seemed easy for me to blend the two, meld it if you will. I believe He exists and created the Earth and everything around us, but I also believe in the Big Bang and evolution... hmmmm maybe that makes me a bit by-polar. That would explain things.

You can have Creation and Evolution, I believe it. Maybe someone just needs to find the middle where both fits.

Awesome piece Opium, love that hair. He does look tired.....

Excellent portrait! Very impressed with it.

Thanks Marcello, patience, sweetcell, and gerbear! :)

hehe thanks poppa :) that's exactly what he does when I give him a papertowel to play with or he gets my sunglasses. and he goes "WHOOOOO!!!" he gets very excited very easily!

lmfao that's hilarious! XD I can only imagine
My friend also has a hawkshead parrot, and he follows us around her house by foot ( why he doesn't just fly, I don't now). If we walk too slow, he catches up and pinches our ankles.
Awesome coloring, by the way!

hehe aren't they the best?? I think they're tied now with catalinas for my favorite parrots! oooh....picture idea.....

i have no words to express how much i like this. other than the ones i just said.

Thank you Staci :)

This is fantastic, don't know how I missed it!!

I didn't see this one, so pretty, finish it soon Tiff.

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Makes me think of a wallpaper for the Sims. :D

I love this he is so cute!!!

Can you draw him to life and put him in my bedroom?

It's beautifully done for sure...but he's not very attractive.

Modifying angles, lighting, or the original 3D form of the reference is the kind of stuff I'd like to ultimately do when using references. Just anything that demands the 3D form is understood so that it could be used to produce other 3D forms is what would benefit me most. I tend to be more 2D-oriented when copying photos regardless of whether I'm using measuring devices or just freehanding, and that's useful for copying 2D images, but not for inventing 3D ones. I tend to ask questions like, "what's the 2D shape of this highlight? How does it relate vertically and horizontally to this other mark?" Rather than, "what's the 3D form of this figure"? If I understood the 3D form, then I could invent my own highlights without using the precise shapes in the photograph.

I pretty much knew this picture wasn't what I should have been doing when I started on it based on my goals, regardless of the grid (though the grid made it that much worse). I set out only to draw the reference as accurately as possible and nothing more. In that sense, it's one of my biggest failures since that's the last thing I want to be doing in the future as I progress. I didn't even try to experiment with painterly techniques - I was trying to be as unpainterly as possible in this one so that it would look just like a photo. Generally I get the most comments about the painterly aspects of my works when working from photos, but this time I really wanted to try not being painterly (I tend to be painterly for economical purposes, not intentionally). I didn't even really achieve the photorealism I intended to achieve despite the use of the grid for the line drawing, so I didn't even succeed in that respect. While it's completely against my personal goals, I still admire the artists on here who can make their paintings look just like a photograph. I was hoping to achieve it here, but I think I deviated too much in the shading and still relied too much on lines which gave that sort of cartoony effect in places.

omg biggest posts ever. great pic and i've been a victim of the grid in the past. when the masters of the past were working on frescoes - they couldn't draw straight from life, so they did their preliminary drawing and they would grid that whole wall up before doing some of the greatest paintings ever made, theres no shame :):)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)

Great looking demonthing. Is that the face that was on Beetlejuice's snake in the movie? I don't remember.

This is when he turns into the snake thing and attacks the family, awesome rendition viper.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

haha my favorite part of the movie!!! Recognized it right away...it's the part where he first wants to kill the family and the railing turns into a snakes body and then this is the head. I love it!!