For the best effect, please FULLVIEW - it really looks better that way. I really would like critiques from the full view position.

It's my first realism portrait - yay!

It's taken me ALL DAY. Which, in retrospect, for a portrait is really not that long. I know that, but I tend to work very quickly on my art projects; having only one art class a day can do that to you.

Um, as for the entire thing. After I uploaded it, I realized I made his shirt a LITTLE too thin on the left side - he looks slightly scrawnier than he's supposed to, a little more 2-d. My amazing shading didn't particularly carry through; a heavier approach to the shading would have worked better in my favor, although I did make more of a distinction than I normally do. I must say, I had him pretty proportional though. That was a good deed done. His shirt creases were good though.

This is a model, which I learned after I drew it. His name is Alexander Heartbreak and he has his own line of clothes. I honestly didn't know that when I started; I found the picture on Photobucket.com and I picked it for my 'Misery Hearts Company' sketch base, which is basically my studies of realism involving emo people. Not that I don't love the emo people...I do. (Just realized that sounded mean...) Thanks for the piccy and the hotness, Alex. XD

I would really appreciate strong critiquing. I need it, especially in this stage of realism. If I fix my mistakes, I'll attempt to post the better version up and reduce this to the scraps...until then, keep critiquing me to get me to do better on my next Misery Hearts Company picture! Any critquing is good, please, from the silly to the serious.

Used:
Paper
Ticonderoga Pencil
Staples Carbon Paper
Conte A Paris(TM) 12 Sketching Crayons, assorted
Canon Scanner
Photobucket
Realism Tutorial by the TadArtCo here on DA

Copyright 2008 by killijoy
Alexander Heartbreak and all other references copyrighted by him

Comments and critiques, please!