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July 22, 2006
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This work reflects on how much of a process beauty really is in this era. Men and women both in this age are spending more time on beauty, in fact it has reached a state in my mind whereby it is almost acceptable that if you look better you are more likely to succeed seeing as people are judging others more and more by their looks. We have become a society of narcissists.. and I rather Enjoy it ;)

I basically did this work in three layers:
Started with all the darks, except left eye and eyebrow (did that near the end)
then drew the right hand side of the honey upside down so as not to smudge or mark or dirty the paper :D
then the light side of the face last without resting my hand on the paper...

This drawing took quite a while, but I think it was well worth the effort. The photo doesn't quite capture the detail i put into it, but thats alright because I just got hold of a decent camera and am in the process of taking pictures - will have this work updated soon! (*1/7/2010*Updated pictures, raised highlight to make paper white but did not edit actual drawing area)

I don't smudge any of my drawings for those of you that asked.... I draw the gradients in kinda the same way someone would do paint washes..? Yeah. Thats the best way to describe it..

Medium: Staedtler 6B Pencil (No smudging/blending whatsoever)
Size: 35x40 cm
Reference:
[link]
(which I found on some random website promoting The Matrix Reloaded.) just upped the contrast and brightness a bit - i prefer steep drawings personally.
Featured Here: [link] ..and Here: [link]

Download this for Better Detailed view! (Download icon is the little green arrow on the right of the page for those who asked)

~riefra, ~marker21 and ~latent-talent have also done renditions of this picture, find them here:
[link] July 2010

[link] Sept 03 2007
CONGRATULATIONS latent-talent! received a DD for this a full YEAR after I drew mine. Would be so great if mine made it too - then we'd have two versions of the same thing!

[link] June 21 2008
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Mood: Wow! ~A-Scudder Feb 23, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Brilliant! She sorta looks like Anne Hathaway :)
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~Strooitje Feb 11, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I had this one on my 'to do' list too...
I might cross it, seeing what great job you did.
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Mood: Joy *Wingfetish Feb 21, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Noways! doooo iiiittt!!! :D There's a lot of people who've done it as well, some of them better than mine in my opinion, I wasn't quite happy with the total outcome after looking at some of my recent pieces :)
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~alexmatra Feb 9, 2012  Student General Artist
I love this one!! So awesome!
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~Zimriver Jan 22, 2012
this is really cool
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=OanaZ Jan 2, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
she's monica bellucci
awesome reference
awesome drawing!:clap:
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*Wingfetish Jan 30, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you :D
I really enjoyed drawing it despite how long it took! :D
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=OanaZ Jan 30, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I can imagine; all that honey, yum!
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Mood: Wow! ~EndlessDark14 Nov 23, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Amazing! :D
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Mood: Joy *Wingfetish Dec 6, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks so much :D
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