Another shading exercise with Milla,
I didn't use any photoshop effects (blur, layer, brush), completely handmade drawing.
Original size A4, this artwork took my 22 days.
It's measurement is identical with the original photo.
Materials: 2B, 7B, charcoal pencil and ruler.

This one is a self portrait as a vampire (inspired by the egyptian mythology...) . I've started it with a mirror but it was too long, so I've continued with a bad photo (not exactly the same pose, but it has been very useful for the shading).
No refs used for the hair, jewelry, snake....
18 hours
2H, 2B and 5B pencils
A4 paper

Many pencils, particularly those used by artists, are labelled on the European system using a scale from "H" (for hardness) to "B" (for blackness), as well as "F" (for fine point). The standard writing pencil is "HB". However, artist's pencils can vary widely in order to provide a range of marks for different visual effects on the page.

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Originally posted by VEEE...

yeah but then it looks like a picture. and if its gonna look like a picture then u might just as well take a picture. no doubt it takes a lot of technique and talent to do this. but its lacking one thing and i think its the essence of anything revolving around the word "art":
creativity.

Originally posted by NITROUS (N2O)...

AMAZING ARTWORK !!!!

Originally posted by MOONDANCER...

Dman that is good. Regardless of what kind of pencils he uses, he has a really even hand, those textures are flawless.

but those, what do you call them "neo-realism" or soemthing, paintings are just freaky though how real they are with the colour. Def worth checkign out if oyu are impressed with this.