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    Posted by Gordon Forbes on November 8, 2003 at 3:35 am

    This has been totally abused by sitting in an attic for years its all faded and another p*%! poor picture but you get the drift


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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    November 8, 2003 at 10:05 am

    They look great mate. 😉 . Did you use charcoal to do theses?

  • Mike Brown

    Member
    November 8, 2003 at 10:07 am

    fabulous work! – wish I could do faces? 😕

    how about a step by step on doing a portrait like this eh!

    more soon

    mikethesign

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    November 8, 2003 at 10:47 am

    you can mike, you have two of them… 😆 😆 😆
    wwahhh bitchy bitchy, scratch my eyes out.. *hair* (<(

    😆 😆 😆 😆

  • Mike Grant

    Member
    November 8, 2003 at 11:42 am

    Looks like airbrush to me.

    Great work. I have never been able to do portraits, always stick to cartoons as you can’t see see the mistakes so easily. 🙄

  • Gordon Forbes

    Member
    November 8, 2003 at 3:32 pm

    First one is pencil (done for my girlfriend now wife at the time the things you do eh!! 😳
    Mikes right the second is airbrush done with black gouache and sealed with some Daler stuff for sealing water colours I think.
    I have a digital camera and intend doing some more drawings in the near future so I’ll take photos while I do it if time permits.
    It seems to be a case of working from white to black and building up the tones to what you think looks right plus masking, very important and time consuming.
    I was looking at E-Bay and was thinking of buying that Roland CX24 that is advertised for £1300 odd to start me with Signs and cutting stencils on frisk paper would save a lot of time.

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