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Men Who Hate Women PT cover - pen

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First of all: how the hell can people draw hair realistically? It really is something I cannot grasp. Draw every single tring of hair perfectly? It looks absolutely insanely hard.

Anyway. I personally call the drawing of a real person portait as ultra-realism. To me, it's one thing to draw a very realistical character such as the ones from Final Fantasy, but that somehow are still a character, something that can become more manganime-ish perhaps - nevertheless, the shading, the depth of the facial expressions, the hair, etc, makes it realism. It's completely different to draw an actual real person. It sounds a lot harder. I make this distinction in my head regarding my drawings, I don't care if it applies to other artists' opinions and drawings or not, because it most likely does not.

As my first 'official' ultra-realism drawing, I wanted to try something new. So for the first time, I've sketched a pen drawing. I wanted to try to get everything as best as I could, and I thought that getting the nose right for example would be too hard, and obviously, that tattoo was too detailed for me to want to fail it like I failed with the details of my Lulu drawing. So I've sketched, freehand obviously, the basic outline first, and the entire tattoo. But I really think I should have used a softer pencil. I'll work on that next time. Everything else is completely done by pen.

I know it's off. I've been able to detect many of the parts of light hitting the skin on the original image, but I just fail to reproduce them. The eye is too big, and as usual I failed the correct prespective of it. And as for the hair, yeah. It's insane the talent you need to make a realistic hair, and I'm far from having that talent. But it was fun.


Reference image: my portuguese version book cover of Men who Hate Women by Stieg Larsson [link]
Size: A4
Time taken: 1 week, more or less
Materials: 2B pencil for sketch, rubber, pencil-rubber thingy for the details, one black BIC ballpoint pen
Music list: Crucifère and Bulimiarexia by Eths. It felt appropriate for Lisbeth.


Men Who Hate Women belongs to Stieg Larsson
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SofiaSevero's avatar
how do you do that O.O