Today I am happy!
Just finished another art piece, and this one I'm quiet excited to share with you. I have been meaning to draw Kurt for some time now. I just wanted to get some practice in as to not disappoint the great Cobain. Like most artists I suffer from being a slave to my own perfectionism. A lot of the time when I complete a piece I don't even want to look at it because instead of seeing what went right, all I see is what I did wrong. This is the first drawing I completed in a while that truly makes me smile.
The feeling one get's when they decide they are going to do something, work hard and it all comes together as planned, is a Euphoria that no drug can match. The most depressing times of my life were those in which I was not accomplishing anything by existing. I feel it is no coincidence that creating and contributing makes us feel good. It's as though these reward systems are ingrained in our DNA in order to make a richer life for all. This is the type of instinct that drives a species forward. So if I am ever feeling down, I create and it makes me feel so much better. I realize that all sounds super corny, but it couldn't be more true for me.
This is my process, and with some time and determination I am sure I can walk you threw creating this art piece. Then you too can share with me the euphoria that is creation of art!
"Who knows? Not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world"
What you will need
artists pencil set, paper, eraser, shader/q-tip
For the hair I suggest when starting out to just sketch the general shape and angles first.
Shade it in completely with a light grade pencil. The actual strands of hair will then be created by taking an eraser and making fine strokes in the direction the hair flows.
In order to get proportions and placement right think of where lines are in relation to one another.
Add in the shapes on the jacket that will be the lightest
Now start to shade in the dark areas
Use your shader to smooth out the graphite and make it look cleaner
Repeat the process until you have the desired level of contrast
When you get to this step I recommend using a blank piece of paper to put over the area your hand may be rubbing up against as to not ruin your hard work.
Finish up by shading in the background just dark enough so that you can erase the area in which will be the smoke cloud
1967-Forever
Send a up-vote my way if you liked this and would like to see more.
If you have requests for possible future drawings let me know in the comments.
I hope you all enjoyed the tutorial,
Barry F Samways
@thephrophet0 Words can not begin to express the sincere appreciation I have for your kindness in up voting me about 25$! because of you I am going to start my next post right away! I will give quality posts to this amazing platform #steemit. These gestures encourage and motivate people to continue to develop posts that benefit the community! so again thank you, and keep spreading the love!
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This is fantastic. You are an amazing artist!
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Thank you so much! you have no idea what that means to me. Cheers!
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Of course! I also resteemed it. :)
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many thanks :) you rock! followed you I will be checking your posts and upvoting
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That's great. Seriously, very talented. And, on top of that, your writing is fantastic too.
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@karencarrens That's actually really cool to hear, I was worried I was writing to much. I wasbasically just jotting things down that were on my mind. Was thinking maybe no one cared and I should just post the picture and be done with it. its nice to see someone noticed the extra touch :)
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Keep adding the extra touches because it's those things that matter. Take a look at @sumatranate and @walkingkeys. Follow them. They are awesome. Their last few posts are going to encourage you. It encouraged me! And you also encouraged me. Thank you!!
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awesome I'm glad you found my post :) I will check that stuff out right now!
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Wowwww really good! I love Nirvana
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thank you!
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great post cuz
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So happy to see you join the community!
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Wow you got some skills. I like how you made it like a little tutorial. I can't draw that well though :P
Great stuff!
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Thanks my friend and I appreciate the resteem. motivates me to keep making these which I truly enjoy doing, but if no one notices them there is no point really. cheers!
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Just keep at it. It takes time for some to get noticed. I shared your post in some servers on Discord chat so you should see more support.
Steem on.
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WOW! much love. keep connected!
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Of course man. You can catch me on SteemSpeak on Discord.
Look at your posts now ;)
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@bitcoinparadise, what you did to encourage our friend makes me so glad to be part of this community. That was really sweet of you! 💥💥💥
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He's got talent. It was @theprophet0 that really did something here. I just helped a little. I appreciate the kind words :)
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Butterfly effect :) thanks for flapping your wings ;D
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follow back and vote me Mr. @barrysamways
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wow thanks for the resteem! sure thing buddy!
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Great im so glad you discovered Steemit and can share your great work on here!
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I'm in love with this artwork and the process of making it.
I understand how grueling and hard it is just to produce an artwork, more so a great one. Kudos!
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That's so nice of you to say. makes me smile knowing people appreciate the hard work I put into my posts. If you would like to follow there is lots more to come. A new tutorial should be released tomorrow or the next day.
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Already followed you, thanks for the invite!
Pat yourself in the back, no need to be so hard on yourself. You did an excellent job.
Will be looking out for the new ones. :)
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Amazing!! Your shading is so realistic and detailed that I cannot describe how wonderful your picture is. It looks so great!
I always have the hardest time shading clothes using black --> white. I cannot "see" how shades will form traditionally. Do you have any tips? :)
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A tip I have is don't look into the deepest details right away. even squint your eyes a bit so it blurs the details draw the biggest mass of shapes first. like u see here I draw where I see the lights will be then shade in around where the darkest points will be. then continue to look into drawing finer details as I go. once things start to come together it gets easier. Happy drawing! cheers.
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This is so cool! I love seeing the artistic process like this! Can't wait to see what you do next. :)
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thank you! I'm glad to share my next posts with you!
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Keep strong
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You are a great! amazing draw
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thank you so much
Steem on my friend!
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Thats awesome! I really love pencil drawing, and i like your set of pencil 😍. I only have 2 pencil and they are the cheapest one, a mongol pencil 😊.
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Followed, upvoted and resteemed 😉.
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haha thats so cool to hear thanks. well this post just paid for everything required to make this! I am getting started on my next piece right now!
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I thought it was a real picture before i opened the article..
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very nice. i will be following
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I appreciate your support! I'm already following you ;D
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Very nice, i was always a Nirvana fan!
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Thank you for viewing my post. I appreciate the kind words,
and same! His voice is so hypnotic. He was put on this earth to speak to a lot of people on a deep spiritual level, and connected with them. he will continue to do so for as long as we survive his legend, and that's beautiful.
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There are so many pencils! Are they different pencil in use? Wish i could have a quality pencils like that 😊. Are they expensive? If it is, i cant afford to buy some 😂. Your art is really great @barrysamways!
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hah your to kind my friend. the set was 10 dollars and its a range of pencils from hard to soft led as you can see there is a lot of contrast in the picture I used a 4h for the lightly shaded background and a 8h for the deep jacket tones
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Cool! My drawing would be improve with that kind of pencils? 😉
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no doubt! with more contrast adds more realism. When you look at things in real life they are not usually a flat grey, they have light whites from light reflection and extreme darks where the light doesn't touch (shadows)
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Very nice work ;) Thank you for sharing the process :) I follow you now ;)
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@yoganarchista thank you so much! I will continue to create these posts as long as there are awesome people out there like everyone that up voted me to continue to support my efforts. like everything in life I am sure I will get better at explaining my process and help others to create as well. My main goal is to get more people interested in art and maybe try themselves, or give tips to existing artists. thanks for commenting. cheers! followed back
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Nice Drawing and art @barrysamways
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Astonishing, the detail is impeccable. Did you like the drawing friend, Greetings
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thank you so much, but I'm sorry I'm not exactly sure of what it is your asking
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You left the drawing very well, my friend. I'm sorry, the translator makes a mess.
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aww understandable, well I am happy you found my post and like it. I hope you will follow me and continue to check in on the art work to come. cheers and steem on!
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sure my friend
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Congratulations @barrysamways!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:
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wo that's amazing! what a fantastic post you made keep it up!
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Your potrait drawins are just mindblowing.
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thank you so much! appreciate it. The next one is almost done, and I am working very hard on detailed explanation of my process!
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I will stay tuned.
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Nice post, I follow you.
@barrysamways
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Wonderfully made drawing. Very artistic.I follow you.
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glad to have you as a follower!
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