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Eddie Izzard portrait

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This is a portrait of Eddie Izzard, english actor and comedian. I just love the whole photo set (by Gavin Evans) where I took the reference picture from. Eddie looks so ragged and hang-overish... In my opinion I couldn't achieve exactly the same mood in the picture. :(

I had really hard time with the proportions this time, but in the end (after hours and hours of work!) I managed to get it right. Phew. I tried some new techniques like stumping and blending, and used softer pencils than I'm used to. When I was a younger and in middle school, I remember my art teacher saying that a good artist doesn't smudge and only uses pencil trace to create the texture desired. He would get annoyed if he saw me doing the smudging. That advice burned into my memory. Every time since then, when I smudge, I get this quilty feeling! (stupid, I know...) Now I decided to ditch those crappy advices and do a entire piece by smudging!
Screw that old uptight art teacher... :shakefist:


Original size approx. A4
Made with pencils (2H, B, 4B, 7B)
(+ blending stumps, tissue)
Image size
600x743px 292.73 KB
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Kreite's avatar
He looks a bit like Peter Dinklage.