This is kind of a monkey-off-the-back drawing for me. Everything seemed to go against me while I was trying to finish off this drawing.
Some of you might remember when I talked about how I'd been struggling to start a new drawing. Then I watched Olympic games and got inspired by those hi-tech VDO replays that captured all the action shots in super slow-motion. I wanted to capture the same stunning shots with my own hands.
And then there's Michael Phelps. He inspired me to go to the place I'd never been to and I ended up choosing this picture --> [link] as the reference simply because it looked like the hardest picture to draw from.
Then I reached the difficult parts, one after another, and realised I'd need to spend a lot longer than I thought to finish this off. To make it worse this picture had none of my favourite parts, hair and eyes. I got discouraged and distracted by a few things and ended up putting this drawing on hold for months.
Then a few weeks ago I got inspired again and wanted to draw so many things. I swored to wouldn't start those UNLESS I finish off this one first. Sorry for the dodgy parts on some details but I was really at the end of my patience.
Please don't ask me how long did it take to draw this one because I have no idea. It never took this long to draw one portrait and it's not even one of the pretty ones!
A4 Canson drawing paper (the smoother side) + HB-2B technical pencils + 7B-9B wooden pencils
My next drawing is gonna be an EASY one!
* (C)2008 Diego Azubel. I lost the original link to the ref photo. It's been a long time and I can't remember where I got it from for the life of me. .
**I took the photo of the drawing in progress just in case... -->[link]
Had to look not only twice, but thrice to realize that this was actually a drawing and not a photo... You'd think how in hell could anyone voluntarily choose to draw something as difficult as this, but you did an incredibly good job with the different textures. I'm totally stunned. Well, well done.
This must be the most impressive artwork i have ever seen! the realistic water and everything just make this priceless!!!!!!!!!! i bow down for you !!!!