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Ronon Dex - 2 by ~crysothemis:iconcrysothemis:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Fanart > TV/Movies

©2006-2009 ~crysothemis
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Stargate: Atlantis characters! Now I really have collected the whole set. Well, okay, I'm missing Ford, but everytime I look at him I see that bugged-out eye, and I'm not drawing that...

I worked on this one while sitting outside on a beautiful spring day, and I think it helped. If nothing else, the light was really good. ;}

HB, 2B and 4B pencil

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~creepmaster May 12, 2006, 5:59:38 PM
Wow. I'm glad I watched ya. You're too good. What was the hardest part? Anything really bother ya? I absolutely love the shading and the eyes.... :)

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~crysothemis May 12, 2006, 6:05:44 PM
Thank you! Glad you liked this one.

The eyes took the longest, and the most erasing. I kept getting them wrong, so they looked like they were looking in two different directions. But I sat there in the bright sunlight, so I could see every grain of graphite, and finally got them to where I was happy with them.

I was actually kind of nervous to tackle the hair, and I'm not really happy with the top (I was referencing a screencap, and the top of his head wasn't in it, so I had to make it up). But drawing the dreads turned out to be a lot easier than I thought.
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~creepmaster May 12, 2006, 6:08:43 PM
Your hard work REALLY shows... this is amazing.... I think the hair looks just as good as any I've seen! I'm gonna grow some dreads like that... so I look like him. ;P

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~crysothemis May 12, 2006, 6:36:16 PM
Wow, thanks. I've been called a perfectionist, so it's nice that sometimes it does some good.

BTW, a lot of the texture in the hair is from scratching the paper before I shaded. I'm self-taught, so I only recently stumbled across that technique on some how-to-draw webpage. It feels like a cheat, but it's cool when you want a few white hairs in a darkly shaded area.
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~creepmaster May 12, 2006, 6:58:08 PM
Ahah! Hey! Here's to the self-taught! :#1: Oh yeah! I've accidentally used that scratch technique before when I erased a REALLY dark line :) .... hmm..... I wanna try to actually use it on purpose one o' these days.

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~Eopia May 13, 2006, 5:53:56 PM
How do you do the hair?!!!!! I can never get it right fot the life of me. it's awsome

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~crysothemis May 13, 2006, 6:34:30 PM
Thanks!

I'm using a darning needle stuck in a mechanical pencil to scratch on the paper before I shade. (It helps if your paper's fairly heavyweight -- this is on something like 150 lb paper). That's how I draw in the white highlighted hairs, because the scratch doesn't catch the graphite when I shade over it. Then I shade with a very sharp pencil to capture the pattern of light and shadow, not trying to draw individual hairs at all, if that makes sense, mostly just the shadows between locks or curls or (in this case) dreads.

I'm self-taught, so not an expert, but I've been fairly happy with the effects this technique gives me.
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~crysothemis May 13, 2006, 6:36:13 PM
Try it sometime! I use a darning needle stuck in a lead holder, but you could use anything that's sharp enough to scratch but not so sharp it pokes a hole.
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~creepmaster May 14, 2006, 10:42:58 AM
Hell yeah. I'll do it to it..... MUST use the scratching technique. If nothing else, it's something new.

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~horsebackrider15 May 15, 2006, 5:32:28 AM
ooohhhh wow great job!! :) he's catching

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