Let Me In. Graphite on paper. Image via Darrel Tank of the Five Pencil Methd
I ran into Darrel Tank’s Five Pencil Method few weeks ago. His work is breathtaking.
The site full of wonderful video tutorials, and in his blog, Darrel offers videos with step by step advice on submitted portraits. All I can say is I’m Jealous WOW.
I really just drew one portrait, my first — if we don’t count some self-portraits done as homework for drawing classes in college. And I don’t think we want to see that type of work here, or maybe yes, for giggles. Just so you know in one I was made-up like The Crow. Oh yes there is also that whole other side of me…
Just Go Grayscale And Call It ‘Art’
But all of this is just to shamelessly plug in this portrait that the photographer Dianna Ippolito took of yours truly last week. It will go on the Faculty wall of my school. And if a photo could ever make someone happy this is it, and I wanted to share it here, hoping you will overlook the fact that it is my photo: it is the art of photography and catching a soul with a lens as well.
Moreover, I am losing my innocence and naivete’ as we speak, so good thing they were preserved here;)
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