The working procedure was quite the same as earlier, no specific areas took time significantly more than others. Derwent F-8B was used and Nessu-tissues was used alot. If someone want to ask about drawing, please do so.

I really hope I can post the reference here later as I get permission. Feel no obligated to comment. Its just so nice to show you stuff, you really can appreciate it if it looks good and give constructive critique if it sucks.

Drawing time yesterday 5hours (face) , today 4hours (the rest of it), total 9hours. Size 8x11.
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Happy christmas to all my friends!

There is a certain softness in the skin tones, and the folds/lines are rendered well.

Just wondering, though - are the irises of the man's eyes really that large in the reference photo? They seem just a little out of proportion to me (but I may be wrong. )

You are posting too much and the drawing sucks!!!!

Seriously, another nice one. You showed the hat in another post and I thought you did an excellent job on it, very subtle.

Keep em coming.

Bob

what is this ubiquitous blue tack? is that the stuff you ahng posters with> i asked a couple of times now but no one ansers. im beginning to suspect it is a boardsecret or something.

i dont think the irises are too big, per se. i think something else in the eye's shading is amking them look that way, but i have no idea what it is. it is super minor anyway.
nice stuff.

Blutacks a superior blending tool, actually it puts pencildrawing totally to the whole new level technically. You can study about using it on MikeSibleys and Paul Wilkinsons website, worth checking out. I use it everywhere on skin and highlites. I was thinking about adding some info about using Blutack (the way I use it) on my website soon, I believe it enables most of the people do drawings much quickly than usually with certain methods. Some people have asked me how its possible to draw picture so fast, this is one of the main tool requirements on that among some other gimmicks.

Ok, enough this time, back to holidays