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Published: 2006-02-18 22:22:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 19349; Favourites: 199; Downloads: 1072
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This is the first weekend I've stayed home in quite a while on my new sober binge. After the very long Kate Beckinsale drawing, I didn't want to dive right into another long portrait. So I decided to do a still life drawing. I love drawing metal so I chose to draw a zippo lighter. I may do another still life drawing tonight before I start my portrait of on Sunday.9"x12" Fabriano Hotpress
3B, 3b mechanical, 2H, H pencils
blending stumps, tissue for blending
about 7 or 8 hours
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Comments: 83
What the deuce it looks like a photo. Very well done... Too well done.
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Favourite piece of traditional media piece of art yet.
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that lighter looked familiar i seen your website last year. that circulism stuff really does work well
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Yep, it's a great shading technique,
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wtf? i thought it was a photo at first! great work!!
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WOW!!! I thought this was a photograph at first glance!
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Love it, you really inspired me to try something other than digital art.. I've always figured that ditial art was the only art I could enjoy, paintings and drawings were just plain and old... YOurs however are so different.... they are just jaw dropping-ly amazing... I have no idea how the shading and texture your achive is achieved... you really should wright a tutorial, and do some step by steps on how you make things like this, unless of course as an artist you don't reveal your secrets 
Anyways, you really should consider doing this as a full time job, you are honestly, without a doubt, the best artist I have ever seen, and I mean it!
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First of all, thank you very much. That's quite a comment to fit into my big head 
Thank you for the comment but you will eat your words if you visit some of the people that I watch. I am defenitely far from the best pencil artist on this site. Check out once...all pencil drawings.
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When I see drawings like this I can't stop laughing. I think it's just the amazement factor.
Wow.
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Holy crap. This is DRAWN???!!!
My god....that is sick. Really...thats freaky.
:bows:
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Incredible pencil skills i must say O_O
Wish I could could use em like that (the pencils)
Keep up the great work
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Gawd, nice drawing. Really captures the feeling of a zippo.
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ohh perfect job..
realistc!!!!, your gallery is wonderful!!!
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Just wonderful! I've got one of those lighters, but with the Soviet red star on it, and I think this type of lighters is the coolest. :>
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I really love this one. You really do keep getting better and better at what you do with every submission. I love this one cause it's so simple but when you look at it, you can tell where you've put in all your hard work to get it right. I've seen so many hand drawn portraits on dA, it's nice to see a nice minimalistic still life for once and this is it.
It's great
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damn golf. every time i see your stuff, it just keeps geting better and better. keep it up man.i know it makes people want to do better, it shure makes me want to.
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This is really incredible looking Brian
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Looks great Duey. Very realistic. You are excellent at drawing surfaces of metal and other things. You should definitely do more metal - definitely your thing
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Thanks alot Zindy. I'd like to see a drawing like this from you. Yeah I was thinking about another self portrait...an emotive self portrait
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Wow! It's stunning! Looking to realistic! Definately worth a 
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wow... great reflections... I can see that you love to draw metal! It is fantastic!
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Yeah I love drawing metal...and glass. I wish I could think of more still lives to do that involved metal or glass. Thanks.
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can you draw leather as well as you draw metal? im impressed
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Yeah, I'm sure leather wouldn't be a problem. Just a little rougher texture and the highlights aren't as brilliant. They are more diffuse. Any texture is really easy if you just study it and figure out what makes it unique.
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nice, may i ask, did you teach yuorself or have you got help. ive had to teach myself the whole 15 years ive been alove (lol), so.. sometimes i find it tough to carry on when everyone else around me gets help..jsut curious
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Everything I know about drawing, I've learned for myself. I have never had any classes or anything. I think it's much more rewarding to learn it this way than to have someone teach me.
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Brian! I know it... you are a MASTER of still life.
Here's another
I miss our talks at the PencilShare Chat...
c'mon... mess with me again
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ahem...it's "your majesty"
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oh yeah it happened to me a couple of times...
I restarted my PC... 
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Man, this is really good. Love the reflex on the table. I gotta try something like this one of these days
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Yeah you should for sure try something like this. You already drew boots, that's kind of still life-ish. I'm sure you could make a brilliant still life drawing.
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You're right. I'll give it some thought...
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