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©2008-2009 ~shanraii
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I'd been wanting to draw Ville Valo for a while, but I have this mental block where if I want to draw someone I respect as an artist, I'm absolutely terrified of messing up the drawing or not doing the photo justice. But I finally got up the courage, picked one of my favourite pictures of Mr. Valo and took up my trusty graphites and .07 mechanical pencil to go at it.

I know I always say that "This is the one I'm proudest of," but this time, I really mean it. After I had posted this, I looked back at my first deviation, [link] and realized how far I've come in three years - with regards to detail, shading, composition- I hope I continue to improve, but I'm very proud of this piece : )

So far, all my graphite works here on DA have been drawn on printer paper. So, after not doing any drawings for almost seven months, I decided to take the 'artistic plunge' and actually use my sketchbook - wow, was I suprised! It actually makes a big difference in everything - which should have been obvious, but was a shock nonetheless.


EDIT
I just realized that the detail in the hair is hard to see on some moniters - which is irritating because that was the part that took the longest - close to seven hours. So the detail is there. If you can't see it, I'm sorry.


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:icontabzthefish:
Yeay :hug:

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yep ....thats him..thats our boy...great job!
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HE'S BEAUTIFUL! So amazing ...

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oh brooke.
how your talent amazes me.
and puts me to shame

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:) thanks!

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:iconshanraii:
Thank you very much!
I see we have a fellow HIM fan here :hug:

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:iconshanraii:
Haha, thank you so much!!!

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Great job ^^

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Thank you very much! :heart:

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