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You know, I never understood the whole vampire craze that has been happening today. When I see the trailers to Twilight I honestly just think the guy looks freaky pale and looks like would be ice cold to hug. Then I found a picture of Drew Fuller (aka Chris Halliwell from Charmed) dressed as a vampire [link] and I understood. Seriously, that guy is the only guy who can make vampires look remotely hot to me. Most of the time in that movie, from what I've seen, he just looks freaky pale and with really crap make up covering his beautiful face but he looked really sexy in this scene with the cigarette. Unfortunately I wasn't quite able to capture the hotness and there are no high resolution pictures of this one scene out there :( If anyone could send me a print screen of this one scene I'd be pretty grateful.

I also did this so I could test out my new 8B pencil I got from the shop. It really is a lot darker than 6B! But I'm debating as to whether I might as well just use a black pencil for the areas I want to be basically black. Is there a difference in quality between a black coloured pencil and an 8B one? Because the 8B pencil is very hard to sharpen, and is a bit sticky to colour in with. Advice on pencils appreciated!I also used a HB pencil I think - I found it in the train station and it didn't say exactly what it was. Some tortillons and tissue paper also used.

I still suck at drawing smoke.

Edited a bit in photoshop because my scanner sucks and pixelates things. I also edited the proportions a little bit because before he looked a bit like an ape before and upped the contrast.
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2202x1441px 2.11 MB
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HP
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HP Scanjet e709n
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:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Overall
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This is pretty good and it's great that your not afraid of going dark, that really helps the realism of pencil work I think.

In terms of how to improve, I would focus on a couple of areas that I think would really help. Check your anatomy a little, the hand is throwing the drawing off and there is just a slight twist in the face that needs fixing, it could just be a shading thing, so no big deal.

You have a nice free style, so it can be the wrong thing to change too much, but maybe just tightening up on your lines a little, such as making the face and features more defined, at the moment they kind of blend into the background and it loses dimension.

I noticed in your comments that you used an 8B pencil, if it was just an 8B, it's too difficult to get a range of tones in and 8B pencils are really waxy, so so hard to blend at all. I always build my grades up and almost always do it as 2H, HB, 2B, 4B and 6B .... that's just my way and not necessarily the right way, but playing around really helps you find whats best.

I hope that helps a little bit
Paula