Some new stuff!

[jezurus]

Good Morning guys and Gals, here's some things I've been working on.

Dennis Hopper


Pretty Boy!


High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood


A random Horse,

Hope you enjoy! have a great day everyone!

[grlyleart]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing, I really like the backgrounds you have chosen, I really struggle with that in my work!

[kennychaffin]

Great Job! I love the first and last best. What Paper, Pencils, Techniques do you use?

How big are these?

[SoftRoses]

Really great work!

[unbhaskar]

great Job. I really want to know what did you used to create extra dark individual hairs or beard ?

[michaeleric]

You have been busy. Dennis Hopper is really cool!

[rickycorbett]

Oh WOW these are amazing! I love Clint's hat and the texture of his skin looks really good. Real nice detail in Dennis Hopper, the denim jacket is just incredible. Pretty Boy is so cute...I just love that face. Those eyes are full of so much love. You've got some real nice shadows on your random horse. Nice muscle/bone structure on the head.

Excellent work! Looking forward to seeing more.

~Ricky

[Karen70]

These are all great.

[jezurus]

Wow thanks everyone! The backrounds are just light and dark shawdows blended, like clumps of tree leaves blurred in the back round of a photo, 6B pencils and random shapes.
Kenny, I use Canson artist series white paper, 11 x 14, and 14 x 17,90lbs, I use the back of the paper mainly, it's smoother but still has some tooth, I've tried Bristol paper but it is too smooth!! Faber Casteel pencils, mostly HB, 4B, and 6B, I try to do most detail and shading with just the pencils, hatching, I do the skin under layer with a stump though.
For the beard I used the a sharp 6B and a mechanical 5mm and 3mm 2B pencils, I lay down layers of hairs and alternate with an eraser cut on an angle to create highlight and light hairs, then more layers of graphite, I do this untill the beard looks "Full" and 3D.
The jacket on Dennis Hopper took the longest to create, denim is a hard texture to capture.
Thanks again all!

[jezurus]

Kenny, your work is beautiful! How do you get your digital pieces so realistic?
Rick, I love your graphite work, especially Anthony Hopkins, one of my favorite actors!
Karen, some breathtaking stuff on your site! I love the pastel work your doing, I am trying to learn pastel ATM, I love working with soft pastels.

[kennychaffin]

Thanks for the info on the paper, etc!

Originally Posted by jezurus

Kenny, your work is beautiful! How do you get your digital pieces so realistic?
...

Thanks. How? Pretty much the same as with graphite, lots of time, attention to detail and lots of practice.

Looking forward to more of your work.

[Karen70]

Originally Posted by jezurus

Karen, some breathtaking stuff on your site! I love the pastel work your doing, I am trying to learn pastel ATM, I love working with soft pastels.

Thank you very much - you're very kind. I'm still learning and haven't used pastels much lately as I've got a bit distracted using graphite .

[kennychaffin]

Originally Posted by Karen70

Thank you very much - you're very kind. I'm still learning and haven't used pastels much lately as I've got a bit distracted using graphite .

Ha! Totally off topic, but I just noticed that I did "Abby" the baby portrait in your blog a while back as a digital painting. I don't remember if it was weekly challenge or just a practice, but had fun with it.