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Midterm Part 2. 12x18. Acrylic paper. 18-20 drawing hours.

As with my previous drawing, I totally fell in love with this halfway through and had to see what all I could do with it. I tried pushing the values more in this piece than in Together, and I'm pretty pleased by how this turned out, particularly in the "on paper" version. Shading this thing was a total blast, haha. I love using cotton for wide, contoured surfaces. ^_^

I searched far and wide for good photographs to use, but in the end I wound up choosing this one of little-known model Parker Gregory. Expect to see some more of him in the future - he's got some very artistically interesting and fun pics out there.

Reference: oi51.tinypic.com/30ju0c0.jpg
Tools used:
- Graphite pencils, 4A and 6B
- Q-tips
- Cotton balls
- Tortillions
- Rulers

P.S. dedeyutza gets credit for doing another rendition of this pic. dedeyutza.deviantart.com/art/L… (I really like her art style) To my knowledge, her's is the only other drawing of this guy aside from my earlier hairstyle one back in July 2009. Thanks to her I got the idea to do this one!

Edit:
P.P.S shihodani did a digital rendition of this piece for me - be sure to check it out! shihodani.deviantart.com/art/R…

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