http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2009/355/3/c/Kristen_Stewart_by_bRiXbRi.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 02:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.deviantart.com/download/111847969/Hitler_by_Jess_MacGowan.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/014/b/d/Pauly_by_DoogerPie.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/087/3/f/2010_0327_Connery_by_danmartin26.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs41/i/2009/015/c/a/Sarah_Palin___done__by_LuvzKittenz.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs17/i/2007/141/3/d/Violent_J_by_raizincaine.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
That one's not actually that bad!
― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:10 (fifteen years ago)
I mean, for values of "not bad" when Violent J is involved but yanno.
― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs28/i/2008/055/c/7/noel_fielding___julian_barrett_by_makeastatueofus.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/348/5/e/wayne_rooney_by_davids65-d34vrql.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:14 (fifteen years ago)
EMERGENCY EYEWASH STATION
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/271/5/0/Sarah_Palin_by_LivRavencroft.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/178/e/0/Kevin_Costner_by_Smellyspoon.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/209/7/e/Tony_Blair__art_drawing_by_theartist2010.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/298/6/1/bono_smileyy_by_u2fan003-d31gzbm.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/101/6/0/Luftwaff_Comm_Hermann_Goering_by_giantobelix.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:25 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/023/5/e/5ec1b2d24f4d8835eb5c612658d38589-d37wff2.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://th06.deviantart.net/fs13/PRE/f/2007/034/9/b/Salma_Hayek_by_ewinkaa.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/200/8/c/Susan_Boyle_by_jdartfan.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2009/364/4/6/Bob_Marley_by_LatBosse.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:31 (fifteen years ago)
really enjoying this thread, ty
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:41 (fifteen years ago)
High school art class flashbacks!
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:52 (fifteen years ago)
some of these are pretty awesome
― flopson, Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:54 (fifteen years ago)
Worthy of Blue Ribbon at the County Fair.
― Has No Shame (MintIce), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/283/4/b/jason_statham_by_pod_dekom-d30ggf9.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 12:18 (fifteen years ago)
New favourite thread
― Tom D (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 February 2011 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
that mighty boosh one is permanently mind-altering
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 12:36 (fifteen years ago)
2nd sarah palin one's not bad for a 5 year old.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 12 February 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)
can't believe there are none of eminem yet.
the Hitler one posted is actually really good. It looks like a Richter.
― jed_, Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:08 (fifteen years ago)
maybe u should tell the artist
http://jess-macgowan.deviantart.com/art/James-May-157949772
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:12 (fifteen years ago)
i like most of these. they're cool.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:14 (fifteen years ago)
idk whether the more technically accomplished ones are even worse, a few of them obv show pretty good draftsmanship
veering for worse, cf the hitler/james may dude
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:15 (fifteen years ago)
kevin costner one is awesome. i gotta paint him.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:15 (fifteen years ago)
this is supposed to be.....donald rumseld
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/034/3/8/rumsfeld_by_Cobra_Kahn.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/022/b/a/ian_paisley_portrait_by_mrgreentea11-d37rr4z.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2010/132/7/1/Katie_Price_by_sarahSLIMFAST.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:25 (fifteen years ago)
This is related to one of my favourite things, paintings of celebs on the side of fairground rides where you squint and struggle to work out whether it's Kylie or Dolly Parton, or why Clint Eastwood is wearing an Indiana Jones hat.
― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/231/0/2/Stalin_by_ChemicalEmpire.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:30 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs9/i/2006/059/3/0/Ricky_Gervais_Sketch_by_ColinDavis.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs48/i/2009/194/d/d/Kevin_Shields_by_neon_magician.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:34 (fifteen years ago)
i just put this on the facebook. rufus's painting of john lennon. i dig it. rufus is kind of a nudnik. or at least he's a big fan of mad magazine anyway.
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/180187_10150113500487137_686202136_6249334_8109274_n.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:38 (fifteen years ago)
no! don't call your son a nudnik on the internet, not least because he has found a really excellent shade of jaundiced algae
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:43 (fifteen years ago)
i'm guessing that's the ilx poster john lennon
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:44 (fifteen years ago)
Statham looks an awful lot like Vincent van Gogh
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:48 (fifteen years ago)
Bono looks an awful lot like Barry Chuckle.
― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:50 (fifteen years ago)
I wish this thread's title weren't so condescending.
Yeah, if you compare these to any kind of genuinely good art, they're pretty weak sauce. But good art is rare. These fall into the category of a sincere homage paid to good art, by eager aspirants.
― Aimless, Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
uhm it's not condescending it's p much outright contemptuous
sincere homage paid to good art = lol
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
spoken like a true nakhchivan!
i just like when people draw. i can find something interesting to look at in almost all of these. totally stealing ideas as we speak.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 February 2011 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
nakhchivan, you obv don't have enough elevation to be condescending, so your contempt is of little consequence.
― Aimless, Saturday, 12 February 2011 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
aimless u are the shittest concern troll ever
there are interesting features in most of these, else i wouldn't post
it's pretty condescending to pretend most of them are anything other than crap
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
ya xp
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/080/4/e/James_May_by_Jess_MacGowan.jpg
the original and best
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:01 (fifteen years ago)
Feel like there's got to be overlap here w/ Twilight Moms (cf. 77 thread)
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:05 (fifteen years ago)
not sketched portraits, but there are 1035 homages to Cindy Sherman, which is pretty much exactly how I remember intermediate photography classes in school.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/258/3/6/mark_zuckerberg_by_tif_tastic.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/014/3/b/mark_zuckerberg_by_ayekhine-d37736k.jpg
this one a bit better tho...
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:12 (fifteen years ago)
awww, he looks so innocent and starry-eyed in the first one.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:13 (fifteen years ago)
there really oughta be a thread for ilxors to post their own horrible, hand-drawn fan art.
The Bob Barker painting doesn't have Plinko :(
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:42 (fifteen years ago)
My high school art teacher was a notably sexist, kinda creepy guy. He only liked representational art, and only of people! So all we did was portrait work, mostly from photos. I realized eventually he responded best (an A no matter how lazy the art) when I drew women with curvy asses. So eventually I just started drawing from '80s Calvin Klein jeans ads. Then I focused only on the butt, just these jean pocket asses truncated at the waist and thighs. A or A+ every time. That is how I spent my senior year drawing asses in charcoal and pencil. <3 Abbott
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:51 (fifteen years ago)
Everyone else was drawing faces similar to the ones in this thread, of people like Trent Reznor and Joseph Smith.
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:52 (fifteen years ago)
I want that bob barker, no joke
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 13 February 2011 03:03 (fifteen years ago)
i love it
― ENBB, Sunday, 13 February 2011 03:06 (fifteen years ago)
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:42 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
first thing I noticed about this painting as well
― dayo, Sunday, 13 February 2011 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
Would happily participate in this
― joygoat, Sunday, 13 February 2011 06:41 (fifteen years ago)
have biggie and tupac fallen out of favor? can't believe more people want to draw hitler than tupac.
"if you compare these to any kind of genuinely good art, they're pretty weak sauce"
have to disagree here:http://dranofffineart.com/images/lg/Peyton-Em.jpgversushttp://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/011/d/f/Eminem_Sketch_by_darimc.png
much respect to peyton but her Eminem is too on-the-nose, like something you'd put in Entertainment Weekly with a caption underneath like "Eminem has struggled to keep his demons in check"
the deviantart sketch is more haunting in its fanzine mugshottiness. it captures the"banality of thuggery" or some such nonsense much better.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:24 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs28/i/2008/137/e/5/duritz_by_a_puffs.jpg
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:40 (fifteen years ago)
rob thomas or eminem?
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/318/e/7/e7bb7df8bd95ffbce7b64ae21cb5b212-d32ud30.jpg
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:42 (fifteen years ago)
oops not a sketch :(
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:43 (fifteen years ago)
sexy dan r http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs42/i/2009/128/9/6/Sexy_Dan_R_by_OpaleyeScarletFlame.jpg
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:48 (fifteen years ago)
would bet ten dolla that the second eminem one there is just a photo tracing. it's the lines.
― Kim, Sunday, 13 February 2011 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
it's not what lines you trace, it's the lines you don't trace...is what i'd say if i were some kind of line-tracing yoda.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 13 February 2011 19:39 (fifteen years ago)
lol otm
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:06 (fifteen years ago)
lol. in that case, i'm certain that a search for genius on devart will be uncommonly successful!
― Kim, Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:24 (fifteen years ago)
deviantart is so wonderful i <3 it
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
deviantart is high school binders and i am all about that shit. <3
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:49 (fifteen years ago)
is that piqué
― wonder cozen (cozen), Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/028/d/4/audrey_hepburn_by_greta_pfuscher-d387ulg.jpg
^I thought this was v cool and imaginative until I figured out it's a copy of a Breakfast at Tiffany's film still, i.e.:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc73/KawaiiKun/Photoshop/Annex-HepburnAudreyBreakfastatTiffa.jpg
actually I still like the way the drawing turns a goofy scene into something abstract and inexplicable. like, what are those tufts of hair on the side of her head, and what's that glowing orb, and why are her glasses levitating? it's mysterious but not too too willfully bizarre.
by comparison, this one is uninteresting:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/016/0/b/audrey_hepburn_by_wlrob-d37d72w.jpg
...although I won't deny the skill behind it. it's harder to scorn these things when you look at them as drawing exercises and look at a deviantart gallery as a notebook of someone's artistic progress. on the other hand, it's a little sad when some people don't progress beyond the level of mimicry, so that their drawing exercises really are the peak of their creativity. but it's cynical to assume that's the case for all or most people on the site.
that said, I don't mind giggling at portraits that are just plain awful, drawing exercises or not. I mean
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/014/0/6/audrey_hepburn_by_theoddone1010-d376u9w.jpg
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://thehangman-ss.deviantart.com/art/Audrey-Hepburn-187631016?q=in%3Atraditional%2Fdrawings%20sort%3Atime%20audrey%20hepburn&qo=177
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:52 (fifteen years ago)
loool
second audrey there is technically awes but kinda pointless nonetheless
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:52 (fifteen years ago)
altho i dunno, it is possibly the only photorealistic sketch i have seen
srsly impressive rly
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:53 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, when I tried the same technique (breaking a photo into a grid of squares and copying it square by square) my portrait (of me, not Audrey) was decent but nowhere near as realistic as that one.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:55 (fifteen years ago)
bad Audrey Hepburn drawings are hilarious. it takes a certain amount of genius to transform one of the most conventionally pretty women ever into one of the most conventionally scary monsters ever.
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2278/audreyhepburnbythehangm.jpg
A++
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:59 (fifteen years ago)
that's kinda great actually....it looks like she is being drawn down into a vortex
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:00 (fifteen years ago)
realistic audrey portrait is done with projection (if it isn't a complete shop) in other words it's a big ol cheat. (i have a friend who paints from projected photos but at least they're his own photos.)
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
searched for photorealist sketch and found
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6121429/Artist-Paul-Lung-spends-60-hours-sketching-photo-realistic-pencil-drawings.html
searched for him and found
http://paullung.deviantart.com/gallery/
some of them are great but some are clearly drawings even in the thumbnail
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:02 (fifteen years ago)
correction though, nakh: the second image in my long post is a photograph, and the first and third ones are people's drawings of it. you even had me confused and amazed there for a minute.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:03 (fifteen years ago)
haha
but the difficult w/ photorealist sketching would be in the shading rather than the outlines themselves
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:03 (fifteen years ago)
I like Paul Lung's drawing of his wrinkly old father. it looks CGI, almost.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:05 (fifteen years ago)
are u sure the one below the still isn't a sketch? it sure looks like pencil if u see it fullsize
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:05 (fifteen years ago)
xxp not particularly difficult imo, it's just time consuming. ok there is technique but it's not brain surgery.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs32/PRE/f/2008/212/4/a/4a8372e6906adb489596773990476dea.jpg
this is awes
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:07 (fifteen years ago)
i would recommend not practicing by drawing from photographs
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:09 (fifteen years ago)
yeah but sometimes it's hard to get models to sit still for 40-60 hours.
cats especially.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:11 (fifteen years ago)
then u need to find a catatonic
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:13 (fifteen years ago)
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, February 13, 2011 7:05 PM (13 minutes ago)
yeah, that one's a sketch, like I said.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:21 (fifteen years ago)
that's when taxidermy comes in handy.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:22 (fifteen years ago)
rite, yeah i didn't confuse the film still for a sketch lol
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:23 (fifteen years ago)
wheels within wheels of confusion here, lol.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv215/dolorosa_photos/dec2010/TwoFigures-1.jpg
― are there any socks left that are not some kind of sub rosa markers (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 May 2011 01:54 (fourteen years ago)