My Finished Robert E Lee Drawing

[ekeisler]

finished this last night. I feel very accomplished.

 

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[CoilyGirl]

Great job!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

You have talent my friend! Keep posting!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

My hats off to you, a great drawing of a great man.....


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We will NOT go quietly into the night!

 

[River Rat]

Outstanding!

 

[Jason in Enid]

You are truly an artist! It's a wonderful drawing!

 

[lost]

Very good. You should be proud of your talent. Wonderful.

 

[Justice70]

Superb!!! You did an excellent job shading. I see you used the old grid technique.

 

[watercolor]

Wow! That is a wonderful piece. . . it looks great! Yep, you have talent.

Have you thought of making signed, open edition reproductions of your piece?

My father was a commercial artist in the Chicago area and did a montage illustrations
of notable architectural landmark buildings in Chicago. He had reproductions made from
his original and literally sold thousands of these to frame & giftshops in the area. There's
no reason you can't do the same. . . and still retain your original art.

 

[airscapes]

Wow! That is a wonderful piece. . . it looks great! Yep, you have talent.

Have you thought of making signed, open edition reproductions of your piece?

My father was a commercial artist in the Chicago area and did a montage illustrations
of notable architectural landmark buildings in Chicago. He had reproductions made from
his original and literally sold thousands of these to frame & giftshops in the area. There's
no reason you can't do the same. . . and still retain your original art.

I would think it is a copy-write infringement to sell reproductions of a study! I guess if the photo is public domain it would be ok, however still a study since General Lee did not sit for the drawing and it is a 1 off of the photo. Most of my work has been the same and I would never try and make reproductions of it and call it original work.
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[CincinnatiKid]

Beautiful and true to detail! Peace

 

[Flex68]

Well done!

 

[newgoldfinder]

very fine detail indeed. Congrats.

 

[ekeisler]

Thanks guys. The beard and facial hair took all of last night. I'm so happy with it.

 

[ModernMiner]

You have a great talent there. Fantastic drawing.
-MM-

 

[GaRebel1861]

You did a great job!

 

[ekeisler]

Thanks everyone. Here's a better picture and a picture of the progress I made from class to class.

 

[elgatodelnoche]

You did a great job! Very impressive!

 

[airscapes]

Ekeisler, it turned out really nice, what kind of paper did you use, and did you use a full set of pencils or just one grade? You mentioned you worked on it in class, was this an signed project in an art class or just something to do in some other boring class?

I have only done one photo realistic pencil drawing as it really takes a long time to build up the layers of graphite to achieve an even dark tone.. and even then it is never black always gray.
I found that using hot press illustration board worked well for pencil as it is very hard and smooth. You do not have to worry about burnishing the paper to get rid of grain or pushing to hard and damaging the the surface.
My 7B and 8B pencil also got used up real fast as the hair in my drawing had very dark areas!
One thing that really helped me was a product called blu-tack, Mike Sibley has a real nice tutorial on how to use and I have to say, I would never have been able to do the pencil drawing without it. Works for charcoal as well ERASING PENCIL with BLU-TACK wall putty at MIKE SIBLEY FINE ART The way you can lift off very fine layers of graphite is just awesome for portraits.
If you decide to frame this, make sure you use non glare glass, it will every so slightly soften the look of the drawing and eliminate the graphite "SHINE" you tend to get in dark ares.
Also lets you see the drawing rather than the reflections of the room in the glare of the glass!
Keep up the great work, you have inspired me to do a charcoal (burnt stick scratching ), it has been over a year since I did any type of drawing or painting!

 

[Frankn]

Nice Drawing. I usually use cold press, I like the texture and I usually work over the drawing with pastels. I originate a lot of my work in the computer, actually drawing on my Graphire pad and using Painter 9.5 . It's kind of like using the camera obscura that was developed in Paris in 1855. I coat my work with polyurathane rather than mount with glass which I don't like, even the non glare type. This method is far easier than the grid method and still produces original work. I use da Vinci sketches as some of my base images. In Painter 9.5 you remove the original sketch upon completion. I used that method on this one. Frank...