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Published: 2004-08-25 23:23:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 42; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 7
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My first complete face. It started out as my first two eye study and I decided I would be bold and try the rest of the face. This what I get for being bold! She looks terrified, maybe I have a future in horror comic books! The shading is a little streaky but I got tired of looking at her. Anyway, not terrible I think for my first real face.Edit: I took a smudge tool to her and improved her disposition a bit. Most of the streaky is gone now. Photoshopping with a mouse is a pain in the wrist
As soon as I'm sure I'm going to stick with this I'll see about getting a tablet 
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YESYESYES tablet = well worth every flippin' penny and then some. : D
Though they have these really neat pencil shaped newspaper stick thingers that are great for blending pencil (I haven't the faintest clue what the technical term for them is) that I recently found at the art stores and they're the most fantastic thing ... I can't believe it's taken me this long to find them. I always used my fingers to blend (not to mention made a terrible mess, and you spend 64 hours cleaning up fingerprints afterwards)... maybe you know what they are? I'm still a noob in so many senses... ; ) They're key for pencil-realism so I've found.
But anyway! This is cool. : ) Not many people are very good at capturing emotion and you've done a great job in doing so with this ... Were you using any kind of reference or did this just come right out of your head?
You've got a crapload of potential and I'm really excited to see you posting stuff...
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Wow, thank you so much!
The sticks are called tortillions! I only know that because they are in the book I got, hehe
I have been using photos as shadow and light references, but the drawings I've done really don't look anything like the photos. I'm not sure if that's a good thing at this point or not, I'll say it's good just because I can! I haven't intentionally gone after any emotion on purpose yet, they kind of take shape with the picture so far, hopefully I'll be able to harness it one of these days
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