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! :)

Awww, God, I'll stop buying fox furs,(no, I do not have any; only a raccoon fur, once) that is so CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!! FABULOUS. FOXY!DARLING. HEE hee, you did such an astounding job, are you sure you are one of US??? HA HA. (just jokin, "us" is great, too.)

still a cute lil guy

so cute <3

Its all working again!

Secret service agent

wow!!! nice!

I Love it !!!

Thank you, brajah and jessi, yes, I'd love me an Artoo unit. Without the annoying Threepio sidekick.

I liked c3p0 every one need some sort of sidekick to make them self look a little deeper ....well done

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.)

wow. anyone see this at the cinema? must have been mindblowing, its one of my fave movies and great likeness in this portrait :)

Thank you all so much. This is by far my favorite piece. Your very kind.

Hal is the best argument I've heard against computerized intellegence....ERROR...Beep, Beep......All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

I really was sad yesterday about his death, he brought people so much joy. I like the style you chose to do this in as well.

Fuck. That sucks. That's the second awesome person who's death i've heard of through 2draw. 2draw > Fox News

I just saw this...sent you my YouDraw Pryor I did when he died on another of your draws. Nice tribute.

Oddly, it made me think of this: http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=263703, which i drew in a kind of story board on YouDraw. :)

A youdrawer eh? :)

well *blushes*..yeh. Liked what a pain in the ar*se it is to draw there. I have done a few things I like over there. Not sure u will link to em but ..http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=363318, http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=350921 (got the face too wide but still like it), http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=263993, http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=254481 (my fav as it is original, no photo ref). Anyhow...enuff of me *laughing*

Am just learning the program here. Went thru your gallery. I would rave, but you already know how good you are. :) Both my parents are professional artists and I teach it so I have seen my share of art and in my opinion you are truly brilliant. Well, dang, I raved anyhow didn't I?

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five little blacked out drawings all in a row. First Axil did it, then someone else I don't remember, and now you. I hope it is not an epidemic! O_O *puts on a surgical mask* ^_^ anyway I am slightly surprised you decided to black out pictures. It is always fun to watch people progression from their first art to their last and these were not bad pictures....

Tiff, why?

tha nks

Very nicely drawn, I did a painted body once and found that to be quite difficult. The clean up of the model afterward was quite fun though and well worth the hassle.

Haha I bet !