Don Cheadle - Portrait

American actor and producer. Cheadle had an early role in Picket Fences and followed it with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewood and Boogie Nights. He then started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the movies Out of Sight, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven. Other Cheadle films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Academy Award for Best Picture winner Crash, Swordfish, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor, Iron Man 2 & Iron Man 3.

In 2004, his lead role as Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda, which was set during the Rwandan Genocide earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also campaigns for the end of genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and co-authored a book concerning the issue titled Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. Along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, Cheadle co-founded the Not On Our Watch Project, an organization focusing global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities. In 2010, Cheadle was named U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador. He stars as Marty Kaan on the Showtime sitcom House of Lies, for which he most recently won a Golden Globe Award in 2013.



Tools:
-2H-8B, Woodless graphite 9B
-Kneaded Eraser, Mechanical Pen Eraser, Electric Eraser
-Blending stump, Makeup removal discs
-A4 (21x29,7cm) (8,25"x11,7")

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Wolves Crest

One of my most recent commissions based on a wonderful idea.

Tools:
-4H-8B
-Kneaded Eraser, Mechanical Pen Eraser, Electric Eraser
-Blending Stump, Makeup removal discs
-A4 (21x29,7cm) (8,25"x11,7")

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TERENCE McKENNA: Nature loves courage

 

I can say from personal experience that there is truth in this quote. I never believed in “The Secret”, all that talk of “if you put positive energy into the universe, the universe will reward you” or “the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward”. I thought it was new age bullshit – something Dr. Phil and other ‘life coaches’ trotted out to suckers. But honestly, my experience over the past 18 months has changed my mind. I had an impossible dream (become a web cartoonist) and I made the commitment and hurled myself into the abyss (quit my job and sold my house to fund the dream) and so far, it’s worked out better than I could have imagined. As soon as I handed in my resignation letter, good things started happening to me. Tim Ferriss contacted me about contributing to his book, my house was sold after I was super stressed that it wouldn’t, and all sorts of other small, positive things encouraged me to keep going. It did kind of feel that the universe was rewarding me for making the decision to finally act on my impossible dream.

Now I don’t want to give people a false sense of hope – that all you have to do is take the leap and everything will work out peachy. For me, ‘making the commitment’ means working my ass off, drawing these comics 6-7 days a week. But the work is satisfying and meaningful to me. So I would say that hard work, planning, skill, commitment and grit make up 90% of the equation, but maybe that last 10% is just deciding to hurl yourself into the abyss.

 Via: http://zenpencils.com/

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Will Smith - Portrait

American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.

Tools:
- 2H-8B, Woodless graphite 9B, Charcoal 3B
- Kneaded Eraser, Mechanical Pen Eraser, Electric Eraser
- Blending Stump, Makeup removal discs
- Proportional divider
- Tinted A4 (21x29,7cm) (8,25"x11,7")

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Do you want to enjoy learning how to draw? ProkoTV

About some time ago I discovered the videos and art of Stanislav Prokopenko (Proko). He is an incredible artist, art teacher and founder of ProkoTV, where you can find instructional and informative videos for artists in a useful method. 

In the channel he covers every aspect of the drawing process, all explained in such an entertaining way you'll not even realize you're learning. It's an effective approach to drawing the portrait from any angle and study the anatomy of eyes, nose, lips, and ears.

He recently launched the announcement of an additional figure series I'm sure it will not disappoint you:

http://www.proko.com/figure

Starting with gesture, then move on to the bean, transform it to the robo-bean, structure and manniquinization, landmarks, proportion, balance, exaggeration, measuring, and finally finish it off with a complete figure drawing using tone.
Don't hesitate to take a look at the series and have those pencils ready!

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Sansa Stark - Portrait (Game of Thrones)

The elder daughter of Catelyn and Eddard Stark. She has three brothers (Robb, Bran and Rickon) and a younger sister, Arya. Sansa Stark is one of the major POV Characters in the books. In the TV series, she is played by Sophie Turner.
I wanted to reproduce the nice bokeh effect like the reference.

Tools:
3H-8B, Woodless graphite 9B
Kneaded Eraser, Mechanical Pen Eraser, Electric Eraser
Blending stump, Makeup removal discs
Proportional divider
A4 (21x29,7cm) (8,25"x11,7")

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Do you want to learn oil painting for free? Then Draw Mix Paint

I've recently came across this wonderful site: http://www.drawmixpaint.com/ and I was surprised by the way realistic painter Mark Carder explains so easily and practically the steps to learn painting and creating your own supplies for the purpose. I've even made a proportional divider for myself that works perfectly, he also does great hangouts about art related topics on Google Plus if you are interested.


Check out the complete course on how to paint realism with oil, I'm sure it will not disappoint you:

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