[x]

Browse More Like This

More from *Ileina

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

#europeans
www.europartists.eu

#ThePencilClub
Pencil Artists Unite.

#EliteArtists
New Breed Of Artists

#LittleBelovedOnes
Children in Art

#pencil-box
All forms of traditional art!

#Traditional-Artists
Artists of Tradition...

#RealismClub
A club for all realism artists!

#The-Original-Magic
For all types of traditional art

Show all (58)

Details

Submitted: April 19, 2012
Image Size: 623 KB
Resolution: 1000×1000
Submitted with: Sta.sh

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 239
Favourites: 726 [who?]
Views: 7,729 (31 today)
Downloads: 99 (0 today)

[x]

Within the Artist's loving Handby *Ileina

Traditional Art / Drawings / People

Edit: Okay, I just found out why the drawing looks here too dark nad contrasty, although in Photoshop it looks well. The color settings in PS where wrong and now that I changed them right, I was able to edit the drawing to make it (hopefully) look like the original

Well, I was working on other drawings as I went through my favs and found that amazing photo again that itched my hands to do some pencilwork!

Things I used:

Bristolboard A3 (actual size is 20x20cm)
Faber Castell Pencils H, HB, 2B, 8B
Staedtler Mars Lumograph 8B
Kneadable eraser and BluTac
Tombow Mono Zero erasers

About 200 tissues

19 hours of babysitting time

The lovely Leanne

allowed me to use her too-cute-to-believe photo!

Be sure to check out her outstanding traditional work as well!

If you wonder what’s about the title… I really lacked of one, so I went through my favourite songs and came around Vincent by Don McLean and there was that line

“… beneath the artist's loving hand”

and it sounded quite good enough ( I couldn't find a song with feet or toes

)

I also learned some things about shading during this drawing

Normally I used to regulate the brightness of the shading just by pressure (using just one or two different pencils)… that’s stupid, you’ll always see lines and it won’t get really smooth at all! So I tried to work in many (manymanymany…) layers, beginning with a H then HB etc. as long as the proper darkness is achieved.

The most annoying part was the hand, especially the thumb :shakefish:

Thanks for looking!

Viki

Critique by *DarkAngelDa-chan Apr 19, 2012, 6:19:10 PM

In this drawing everything seems perfect. I don't like to said that a drawing is perfect because we are not. The only thing that I can spot is the originality. It's not fantasy and it's not stylized. But the vision is awesome and the technique is majestuous and the impact was so powerful. One look and you're stunned. I like this drawing, shading is great and the tone are amazing. I never see something so beautiful and it's really practiced. I hope you will do other drawing so awesome, it's wonderful. The only ''default'' is the originality, I don't see any other things...This is a magnificent drawing!Congratulations!

What do you think?

Fair Unfair

The Artist thought this was FAIR

21 out of 21 deviants thought this was fair.

No Replies

Devious Rating

Vision

Originality

Technique

Impact

Critique by ~Aerilia Apr 19, 2012, 4:38:43 AM

Wow, this is so real it's like a black and white photo. You've done a marvellous job, capturing all the little details of what hands and feet look like and overall, this is really beautiful. So many people do realistic drawings, but few can make it look like it was a photo straight up. I love the gentle shading and the way you've done the shadows. I think you've really done a wonderful job in how you've captured the special bond between the parent and the baby (I'm assuming it's the baby's parent holding them). I can just imagine the full picture, the parent proudly holding their baby to show people who've come to give their best wishes. Seeing the baby's tiny little feet, it makes you think about how fleeting our time on earth is. One moment you're the baby, the next you're holding one of your own.