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Published: 2010-12-18 23:13:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 722; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 25
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Brian Joubert is pretty cool; he skates to Daft Punk and doesn't afraid of anything. Well, anything except people thinking he's gay. That seems to ruffle his feathers a little.Closet case
Painted this yesterday or the day before. Also it's my birthday tomorrow, can you believe it? I can't. I'm ancient.
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Thanks man! Badass Raticate avatar, too.
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dude I don't even know why you compliment my use of color, you handled it beautifully here! I love his nose and the depth in his eyes. Your mark-making is a plus! +Q+
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Aw, cheers man! I often have trouble putting depth into faces when I paint 'em, so I'm happy to hear that this piece is a bit of an exception!
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Wurgle, this is so cool Sclez rargfef I can't even be coherent today fufeifefe
A dude who skates to Daft Punk is a cool dude. You have a thing for ice skaters lately? XD
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I'm really into Figure Skaters lately. Like, really into them.
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haha, well it's better than... wrestlers? idk lol
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BLEURGH WRESTLERS. Most definitely!
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I LOVE YOUR SCRIBBLY COLORING, it's so.. alive! yet controlled!! at the same time!!!
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D'aww, cheers man! I think it's a technique born out of impatience rather than any sort of critical decision making, though!
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ehdfshkjfhmsdndf I envy your skills so much!! good job here
btw, happy early birthday! 
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A drawing for me? You don't have to, but that'd be lovely! Thank you!
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no problem ^^ I'll draw it rite nao! (I was busy)
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I'm 21 years young today and cheers for the kind comments.
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nice one! still not as old as me though, so you're not allowed to claim the "ancient" title JUST YET
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JOUBEY! 
beautifully done as ever 
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JOUBEY. Aw, Joubey. I can't blame her for getting a massive crush on him as he's quite easy on the eyes. Also as creepy as it sounds, I really like how defined and shapely his face is. He was a lot of fun to paint!
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really cool portrait. congrats. really like the loose strokes
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Thanks very much! The loose strokes were a product of working on a large-but-zoomed-out canvas, really.
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i really like the effect. The lips are very well drawn. I always have a hard time drawing male lips, but you definitely nailed it
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Man-lips are hard, definitely! To be honest I think I spent more time than I should have on his lips as it took me so long to try and get the general shape right. I'm glad the effort shows!
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It really does
Can you tell me how to work on this medium. Is it like photoshop and a tablet? I'd really like to learn! If you are willing to tell me, of course?
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But of course! Basically yes, it's a tablet and photoshop but you don't need photoshop to do it. All you need is a digital brush that you can adjust the opacity on. This can be done on Oekaki, actually! Basically I set the brush to around 70% opacity and then basically build up layers of defining colours.
A few people have been asking me about how I work so I'll have to try and make a portrait tutorial, I think!
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Well I have a Wacom Initious tablet and an old version of Photoshop CS2, i will try to get the newset version as soon as i can.
I've just never really used the tablet in a piece that's worth it. kinda depresses me to know i have one and can't really do amazing work like yours and some others I've seen around.
About how large is the canvas you worked on?
Thank you very much!
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Oh no, that photoshop is fine! I use Photoshop 7 for Christ's sake! As for the tablet it's not for everyone; a lot of people out there prefer to use a mouse. As for 'amazing' work please don't flatter me so much!
The canvas was pretty big initially, maybe 2000x3000 pixels? Then I resized the image to be more managable.
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