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Gorgeous high quality hand inspected prints prints available directly from me. Epson K3 archival inks on velvet fine art paper. email me at amandatollesonstudios@yahoo.com.

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Marker paper about 7 x 7 inches. 2B and 7B graphite pencils. Tortillon and tissue.
I will murder all things tweed. No matter how amazing it is it's SO hard to DRAW.

more sherlock :thumb246666803::thumb245582591::thumb216368437::thumb217049273::thumb259533980::thumb260022625:
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Mood: Love ~Darkmaster006 Apr 7, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
This is so realistic and awesome!
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~AmandaTolleson Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
thank you! :)
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~Sherlover221 Mar 30, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
No words...... Seriously.
How do you do it?
I'ts incredible... Can we be friends please?
*_*
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~AmandaTolleson Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
aww thank you very much! :aww: :hug:
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~likeghosts-inthesnow Feb 24, 2013   Traditional Artist
this is actually perfect
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~AmandaTolleson Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
thanks!! :aww:
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*LadyInTheTARDIS Feb 15, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
IDK what everyone is talking about. Personally, I LOVE the coat texture and overall feel of the drawing. You may think you murdered it, but I think it gives it a wonderful character all it's own. I do wonder how you got the dimension into the hair though. the specks of white in the hair are very fine, and so I have to ask, is that all technique, and a steady hand? or did you use a white pen or something? Because I find when drawing with graphite, I lose alot of my highlights, or that they end up so much larger and sloppier than I wish. (that's probably why I usually draw with a dip pen and ink... finer point makes for easy detail, and less smears if you're good at knowing how to draw to avoid the ink while it's wet. that and I've always been one for hatching techniques.) either way, very curious as to the method of which you used to create the vast array of textures. in this piece specifically. If you find the time, I would love to hear back from you!
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~AmandaTolleson Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
thanks so much! :aww: I just am really careful I don't make marks where I don't want them. You can pick some up with a kneaded eraser to help brighten it back up sometimes. For the very fine ends you can even sometimes carefully take an x-acto knife just be careful you don't tear the paper. For skin tone tissue paper is cool. But yeah. Mostly just 7B pencils for the really dark stuff. It's just careful application of contrast. Keep a smooth paper under your hand so you don't smudge anything and blow the paper off every now and then. But yeah mostly just lots of practice! You'll get it. :)
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~The-Brave-Kitten Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I've been doing this kind of artwork in my artroom, everything looks great except for the texture of the coat. How did you do that?
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~AmandaTolleson Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
It took forever. It was just done slowly and carefully with a 7B pencil. :)
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