boardsintermediatedoodle portrait - beauty queen
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drawn in 2 hours 29 min with Lascaux Sketch Classic
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comd (Apr 8, 2006)
Just a doodle of someone I don't know. Ref: http://www.feebonics.org/images/portrait_ref.jpg. I was chatting with Marcello about Lascaux while drawing it, so I didn't spend quite that much time on it.

Like the William Dafoe one which turned into some dark warrior elf thing, I didn't bother so much to draw the person in the picture (though I was a little less sloppy this time). Halfway through the picture, I started seeing some resemblance to Connie Nielsen, so while I wasn't deliberately trying to make it look like her, I did start thinking about her halfway through the drawing and that probably had some influence. I didn't deliberately try to change much this time. The only place I consciously and deliberately changed was the neck area (I really like long necks). The rest is just inaccurate. The upper half of her head and her eyes bother me a bit, but I started rendering the details in those places too early and it'd be a pain to change them now.

The line work is pretty bad. I'm really uncoordinated with my graphics tablet.

The picture frame was a challenge, and maybe I should remove it. I just wanted to try making rounded corners with a fillet style effect, so I drew four circles and just drew tangent lines with the line tool. To make the lines look smooth, I used a thicker stroke with lighter opacity first rather than using antialiasing.
comd (Apr 8, 2006)
drawn in 1 hour 21 min
DoOp (Apr 8, 2006)
*cough* better then me on my tabler*cough*

chattin' with marcello, sounds funtastic! =D wooh! still looks great =0
davincipoppalag (Apr 8, 2006)
She's quite beautful and you did her justice.
Zack (Apr 8, 2006)
I find the hatching here really successful. Even with personal goals aside, I think it's really a great piece in itself.
Renuar (Apr 8, 2006)
yes, the hatch, ya got hatch, you got skillz, more like this
comd (Apr 12, 2006)
drawn in 1 hour 8 min
I needed some more studio space, so I did a quick coloring job and marked this as finished.
Shoebox (Apr 12, 2006)
FAntastic shading!I wish I could do realism like you *sighs*

She looks younger in this revision, for some reason. Maybe the cross-hatching gave the illusion of wrinkles. I think you did an awesome job...
comd (edited Apr 12, 2006)
Oh thanks - I feel like the mistakes of the underlying drawing are showing through though. I tried to correct them in places, and get around them in other places (the eyes mainly by just making them all dark). That's what I get for trying to color a bad drawing.

I feel like doing hatching/cross-hatching on women is tricky since it doesn't just create tone, but also creates texture, and that texture tends to create a look of aging on women. I find men a lot easier to draw with that being one of the main reasons (that I can be a bit rougher and create more texture without affecting the look as much). Also there tend to be more landmarks on men to guide proportions (at least I seem to know the landmarks better on men) whereas women tend to be smoother with fewer prominent marks. Anyway, I always found women to be a whole lot harder to draw without becoming really frustrated.
Sweetcell (edited Apr 12, 2006)
This version is so much better, as you say the hatching can add age. Your works looks like a combination of mediums, chalk, cante craoyn, watercolor, and pen amoung other things. Gad your good comd.

We women have always been frustrating hmmm? *giggle*
DoOp (Apr 13, 2006)
woh, so pretty ! the hair really really reallly... i want it >_> plus the nose ring is pretty and stuff =) she's really pretty >^< <3<3<3
woah_pockster (Apr 13, 2006)
at first I thought it was one of joe's :0
you did a wonderful job with this dear I really enjoy looking at this<3
kayla (Apr 13, 2006)
The drawing's crazy, the coloring's crazy, the color scheme is crazy... this whole drawing is so awesome! I love the way you shaded it.

I understand how you feel on using tablets. The drawings I do on the computer always look so much worse then the ones I do on paper.
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