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Published: 2006-07-31 22:03:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 5754; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 37
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So my girlfriend asked me to draw a picture for her - of whatever I felt when I thought of our relationship. I thought of us as an old couple holding hands, walking down the street.Obviously, she left me
Bitch. haha. I thought it turned out pretty good anyway, even though it's my first time drawing hands.The original photo is buy a dude named Paul (aka befresh), and can be found here [link] A big thanks goes to him for (hopefully) allowing me to display my interpretation on DeviantArt. Charcoal on paper, 11x14.
Edit - I updated the picture (fixed some things, added some more shading) 08-01-06. Hope you like this one better.
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This speaks volumes of emotion, even in it's simplicity. The simplicity in itself is what creates it. This is very nicely done! Your work has great drama with it's stark darkness and brightness, something I adore!
I've really enjoyed seeing your gallery!
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Sadly, most of the emotions have come and gone (well, I tell myself they're gone), but such is the way of life, I guess. All that remains now is the memories we've created together, some feelings of love and intimacy that still linger, and of course, this image. Our beautiful relationship may have grown in seperate directions, but this image, a symbol of our time together, will last forever. Years from now this may be the only evidence that we ever existed as a single heart and soul for a brief moment in time. That is the beauty of art.
Perhaps I'm being too sentimental.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the kind words. I'm really glad you like it!
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Whether the actual emotion that brought on a work of art has come and gone matter very little to the artwork actually containing that emotion.
Emotion is a fleeting thing, here today gone tomorrow. Yet, surprisingly, it is also a large part of what makes us who we are. Emotion is a strange fleeting thing that somehow manages to linger at the same time.
Art, however, isn't fleeting. It is tangible and consistent. And this is where emotion can become tangible and consistent as well. The actual emotion that it took to inspire a work of art may be long gone, but the piece will still exhibit and show that emotion for as long as that piece of art is around. Let's say that this particular drawing survives 4 or 5 generations from now. You are long dead and in the ground. Yet those who look at it will still feel the original emotion you felt with it. Consider the art masters of long ago. Their work still invokes emotion.
So when I spoke about the emotion of this piece, I didn't mean the emotion you felt with the girl. I meant that I could sense and feel the emotion you put into it at the time. And this is a good thing. Art without it is dead. So good work!
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Excellent job in this piece. I do like the depth and contrast created here. The anatomy of the hands look right to me, in my opinion.
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Thanks! And thanks for the fav and watch 
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awesome job. the detail on the wrist is amazing.
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Wonderful piece of work. I just came by to tell you that your thumb got featured in my current journal, and I had to notify you all by comments on each featured thumb because the bugs of the forum replies. Have a wonderful day!
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Awwhh I like how you get inspiration. The detail and shading is exellent again!
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Nothing more inspiring than life
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very touching, beautiful work. it hit me hard, its something i miss
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I hear you, man - it's something we all have to deal with eventually, I'm sure. What I miss most is simply being next to her and holding her in my arms, you know?
Anyway, glad you like it. Good luck with everything.
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Wich completely debunks the sterotype that MEN are afraid of commitment. Is it wrong to hope for the best? That WAS a bold move on your part, but she obviously wasnt the one.
This is really good. I even though you've got the alpha dark spread throughout the page, you still managed to get some good focus in the way that the womans arm melts into the page.
You've managed to get some verry good depth in this aswell.
The composition is a bit central, but masses of shadows are farely well placed, with a good heirarchy of size shape and direction.
Even if this was on newsprint, it would be nice to see a a lighter shade, maby take it into photoshop and raise the contrast, or lower the color balance.
Good work! +fav
IM WATCHING YOU NOW! MUWAHAHAHA
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w00t! You're my new bestest friend!
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This is the makings of a beautifull relationship myfriend.... but not in a gay way.
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wow looks like a photograph, sorry about the girl dude.
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Thanks, dude. No worries about the girl. I guess it just wasn't meant to be...millions of fish...blah blah blah.
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Very realistic looking imagery. Love the depth of the shading and the detail. Very well drawn indeed. Very symbollic piece you have developed here
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awe, very cute. nice work on the details in the hands, especially the veins
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Thank you very much, my bovine-loving friend
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Beautiful, such fantastic shading and the anatomy is spot on. Very impressive
-Elise
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I thought the anatomy looked a bit off, to me, but then again, I'm picky. haha.
Thanks, Elise.
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These are so realistic!! I can't believe this is your first time working with hands. Personally, I like hands when they're up close, but I don't like drawing them so much when they're a small part of a large picture...you know what I mean? Anyway, they're practically lifelike, from the veins to the folds in the skin. But the front hand looks a little off...maybe the wrist looks a little large? Still - wonderful. Did you do it in charcoal?
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Yeah, drawing them smaller in a bigger picture is exactly why I don't draw hands - or full figured bodies. If you look around my gallery, I think you'll only see one other picture with hands in them, and they're kinda dark. Usually I stick with faces
I've fixed a few little things to smooth it out a bit...maybe I'll stop being lazy and put it up soon. Charcoal is my tool of the trade! I was going to do the entire thing in compressed charcoal (really dark and rich blacks), but I ended up doing the lighter shades with a charcoal pencil. 4B I think.
Thanks for all the kind words!
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Yeah, drawing them smaller in a bigger picture is exactly why I don't draw hands - or full figured bodies. If you look around my gallery, I think you'll only see one other picture with hands in them, and they're kinda dark. Usually I stick with faces
I've fixed a few little things to smooth it out a bit...maybe I'll stop being lazy and put it up soon. Charcoal is my tool of the trade! I was going to do the entire thing in compressed charcoal (really dark and rich blacks), but I ended up doing the lighter shades with a charcoal pencil. 4B I think.
Thanks for all the kind words!
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Oohh, and maybe add the veins in the back wrist? Just a few suggestions.
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Love the way you handled the shadows on this piece. There is a real feeling of depth and volume. Proportions of the fingers look spot on. Really nice subject.
Danni
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Thanks, Danni! If I was able to get permission to upload it as a print, do you think anybody would buy it?
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Hey, I say go for it. Why not? Look at it this way... if you don't put it up for sale NO ONE will buy it.
I think your brave to do that. I haven't had the nerve yet!!
My two cents
Danni
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Great work and texture... I think it's a sweet gesture, can't believe she left you after this. I really hate to draw hands, and try to leave them out whenever I can, you did a great job.
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I kind of thought drawing hands wouldn't be so hard if they were uber big. Turns out these weren't super difficult to draw. After my pencil sketch, I filled in all the dark black shadows with charcoal, and the kind of blended the rest. I think this particular composition is what made it easier to draw.
And if she left me, I guess she wasn't Mrs. Right. Oh well...
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pretty nice work and great concept man
good luck with the gf thing nxt time
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Thanks, buddy. I appreciate it.
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btw
take a look at my recent deviation
u might find it fitting
me thinks
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That's just gorgeous!! I love working with charcoal. 
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