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Alex Evans II by ~birdsnerd:iconbirdsnerd:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Portraits & Figures

©2008-2009 ~birdsnerd
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"Will You Be My Valentine?" -Alex Evans [link].

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~sjthunder Mar 18, 2008, 7:05:29 PM
wow, you're really good at drawing portraits :)
i wish i could just get out of this 'artists' block that im having so that i could start practicing my drawings once again

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~birdsnerd Mar 18, 2008, 9:59:10 PM
hey,
thanks so much for the fav :)
greatly appreciated.

but aw thanks a lot!
yeah, i know what you mean... artist block really does sucks. :(
this is actually the second portrait i've done in 6 years. i used to hardly draw portraits because drawing people used to intimidate me (actually, i've only done 2 portraits before these 2 alex evans ones here on deviantart). but now i'm like trying to get better at drawing people by doing more portraits, you know?

well, i hope you get over your artist block soon so i can see more of your work!!!!! :)
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~quoteouttacontext001 Mar 18, 2008, 10:11:02 PM
O____O

you're skills are awesome; the lines in the neck and cheekbones look perfect. :+favlove:

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~birdsnerd Mar 18, 2008, 10:20:35 PM
awww thank you so much!
greatly appreciated :)
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~sjthunder Mar 19, 2008, 7:19:32 AM
yea, i tried to do a portrait once when i was eight, but....uh let's just it turned out really scary. so ever since then i've been intimidated to do portraits =D by the way, how did you block in his skin? because i've always had a hard time with that

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~birdsnerd Mar 19, 2008, 8:10:17 AM
lol yeah i know what you mean.
but you know, with practice, you'll do very well. :)
what do you mean by 'block'?
(sorry, not familiar with the term XD)
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~Sathri Mar 19, 2008, 8:40:03 AM
hes a bit less muscled on that pic at the right shoulder, and in the neck, but for the rest its great, especially love the rose xDD

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~sjthunder Mar 19, 2008, 3:10:12 PM
it's ok ^^ i mean just filling the part up with pencil

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~birdsnerd Mar 19, 2008, 6:30:23 PM
ohhhhh okay, now i get it lol
what i do is shade lightly with my pencil, and then run my finger over it to like smear it. but when you smear it, you want to run your finger over it in the same direction as you would if you are actually touching the real thing (for example, if you are shading his cheek, you would shade it with your finger as if there is an actual curve there). that way, the direction of the shading mimics how like the skin hangs on the face in real life.
the natural oil on the tips of your fingers makes the shading darker.
hope that answers your question :)
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