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Jun 20, 2008, 6:38:10 AM
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My Traditional Art


This was my brother's birthday card/picture, yesterday.
Entry for =seduced-by-the-sun's Fragile Dreams contest

Note: it's a bad quality picture. I hope to upload a better one... but all the details are visible.

Anyway - all the little comments about me learning to use a traditional pencil again? They were true :nod:

This was drawn in my lunch break, after work, on the train, and on the bus (which took ...careful timing. I had a very bumpy driver), and in the waits in between yesterday.

Total time: Two hours
Tools: an F and a B pencil for the lines and darkest areas, and the large shading, repectively. in an A5 sketchbook. The bottom part of the page is cut off, because there's no picture there, only writng.

Trying to take a photo of this was a pain... processed it a bit in Irfanview and paint.NET but it's still a bit wonky.
I may try colouring in ArtRage this sometime...

According to my siblings, it's a Jabberwocky.
According to me, it's a plant. Made of eyes.

The biggest eye, in the bird's head, was the first thing I drew - it's actually a left, human, eye.

I like the gulls. The flying eyeball thing in the top right didn't work as well - it's from one I sketched a few days before, an... uh... 'alternative' snitch :D (...well. That's what it looked like when I'd finished >.> )

...hmmm.
How many human-type eyes are there? :D


Crit: is both wanted and not.
Not: it's a gift and finished, and I'm still learning.
Wanted: general 'you use the pencil wrong here' or 'this is unclear because...' or 'I can't see a thing! I hate the way you formatted this picture because...'


Ah. The stain on the top left corner is were my brother spilt a cup of tea.
And I had NO rubber with me, because I'd taken it out of my bag to use it to take something out of the previous day's sketch (...which is also niceish. But the photo is not tidied up enough to post yet)

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teeeaaaa.... *wanders off*


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~ashlizz Dec 22, 2009
LOVE THIS
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~Flynn-the-cat Dec 22, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you!

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~Charmed-Ravenclaw Jul 9, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
That's really neat I initially thought it was objects making up a face.

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~mikahljames Mar 17, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
very cool

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~zumbooruk Feb 7, 2009
I love creative pencil work like this. I only wish that you could post a clearer scan and that my sketchbook were as interesting. ;)
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*Miss-A-sketches Jan 27, 2009
Very interesting piece! I like it! What a neat gift too!

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~magickalmoon Jan 24, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
this is a fascinating piece... as for tips on pencil work, I'd suggest maybe trying to work a little bigger so as to try giving thought to the lines that you make. Part of the fun with pencil is the control over the textures that you fill a space with, be it cross hatch, straight lines, or squiggles etc. Working with a few different types of lead might give some more variety in mark making as well. I do really enjoy this :) nice work.

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~Flynn-the-cat Jan 25, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you ^_^

They're good tips - except that it's a small sketchbook and only a couple of pencils because that's all I can handle when travelling around >.>

...also, the whole 'thought' thing implies I don't make up each bit randomly based on what I just drew :D

But thank you! Those are definitely things to remember for future work.

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Mood: Joy !O-V-P Dec 31, 2008
ha ha it's super cute :D
Reminds me of botanical drawings :)

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~Flynn-the-cat Jan 17, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks :D

Hmmm... oh yes. I see what you mean. Good, because I like those.

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