Portrait Sketch - B&W by RodS

2D • Portraits • posted on Oct 21, 2015

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WOW! I'm just floored by the comments on my last post of one of my old pencil sketches! I didn't think any of them were all that good, honestly, so I'm just blown away! Here's a sketch of a girl from a photo I took back when I was shooting a lot of wannabe models. I have 2 versions of this - this one and one done in colored pencil, which I'll post next. I'm not sure which I like better. What do you think? I've got a couple to post tonight... :-D Thanks for dropping by, and for all your great comments and support!

Comments (14)

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Richardphotos

9:32PM | Wed, 21 October 2015

she is gorgeous. post more!!

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Diemamker

9:49PM | Wed, 21 October 2015

Wow! this is great!!!... I wish I could draw this good! I could never draw faces...

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bugsnouveau

12:49AM | Thu, 22 October 2015

Cool stuff

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jayfar

5:29AM | Thu, 22 October 2015

Am looking forward to see the colored version but it will have a job to top this Rod, this is so beautiful and love the tones.

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anahata.c

7:16AM | Thu, 22 October 2015

(See, if you had a real sense of drama, you'd show 6 high rises you designed, a few frescoes, and a town square. "I did these in my spare time...") A really sensitive drawing, Rod. In the shirt, for example, you caught the relaxed drape of it, the intensity of the collar, the relaxed way it fades into the paper (at bottom), and with a relatively small number of strokes...wonderfully done. Her face uses several intensities of shading, making her somewhat melancholy (to my eyes). And you caught her to-the-side gaze, with her somewhat 'blank' look, while also intimating something private in her thoughts. That's not easy in any medium. You drew intense eyes, yet also got a plainness in her expression. Her hair has wonderful detail---your highlights (I assume bare paper?) are beautifully articulated. I've zoomed all of these (the full 3 clicks), and your detailing is striking---even her lips are a complex of highlight and shade, and the delicate grain that pencil is so great at. Beautiful pencil work---I've yet to do a facial portrait this good. (I did some cartoon portraits which made my models wanna sue me---but that's another story.) I assume a bunch of your fans are thinking, at this point, "where have you been keeping these, all this time??? More fine portraiture from you.

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eekdog

7:24AM | Thu, 22 October 2015

I'm blown away with your talent, Rod. You do top notch pencil work. Wowow!!

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Cyve

12:53PM | Thu, 22 October 2015

I love it... Outstandingly done my friend !!!

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auntietk

8:11PM | Fri, 23 October 2015

I like the simplicity and the clean feeling this one has. It's a terrific drawing! If I knew more about what I was talking about, I'd give you month-long comments like Mark's. LOL! I was pretty sure he would be interested in seeing your pencil work. :)

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