The Epic Battle

Drawing \ Figure | 05/18/07 @910 | Freiz | critiques (23) | views (846)

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One in a series of self portraits I did; of all of them, this one had to be the most fun. I got to go to the zoo and have a friend take multiple photos of me wrestling with and getting assaulted by this metal Hercules beetle sculpture outside the insectarium. Little kids kept running into the scene to play during the photo shoot and all the passersby stared at me as I screamed and fell before this giant, fake bug. Things like that have to make you love the life of an artist. ;P

Media: Nupastels on Arches Cover paper, 4 x 3 feet.

Check out the links to see the other self portraits and the reference photo for this pose.

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Reference Photo for Pose

Self Portrait 1 - The Tea Party

Self Portrait 2 - Ambition

Self Portrait 3 - The Epic Battle

Self Portrait 4 - Deep Sea Fishing

Comments (21)

Joe-Ayotte

05/18/07 @927

Great pose and composition Jen,

I appreciate all the work you put into the detail in the shell in particular. You used your reference well! Everything about this is great! Good job!

Hybridos

05/19/07 @068

this is very nice pastel draw, a good example of photo reference here, nice colors +9

cnell

05/19/07 @090

Jen i love the whole idea of this and the colors are wonderful. a very appealing drawing.
claudia

razpna

05/19/07 @259

good work ,love the soft colours and way to draw it

alebrije

05/19/07 @338

Nice! I like the shading work!

Fyralath

05/19/07 @468

Beautiful work, i like everything in this work color, BG, the idea, very well done.
Great work!

slickgreekgeo

05/19/07 @494

I wish I could do that with pastels (me and pastels never get along). Excellent work, your sense of color is inspiring.

+10

Avantis

05/19/07 @603

Ace, love all the colours!. I do like the effect achieved with pastels

Dutch-Memory

05/19/07 @734

Great concept and nice drawing!
Well done

dark-girl

05/19/07 @743

this series are great! i think you should post each self portrait separatly , i loved tea party and deep sea fishing

Daykan

05/19/07 @816

wonderful work!!!

Freiz

05/19/07 @863

Thanks, everyone! Dark-girl, I thought about posting each one, but then I wasn't sure if that'd be cluttering my gallery with these, and this one I liked best. I'm actually not very fond of the deep sea one, though a number of people have said they liked that one best, so I don't really know. ^^;

bakatron

05/19/07 @902

niiiiiiice!

its great to see you back here.

thomasM

05/20/07 @641

great colors

deManuel

05/21/07 @286

Great composition and colors.

padrino

05/21/07 @744

beautiful work ! +10

greets

cupcake

05/21/07 @852

Beautiful
I like your style.
Top Mark

tomato04

05/22/07 @782

awesome work! totally cute^^

Saimain

05/23/07 @229

Hee, very cute! I love the motion in it. ^__^

ViolentContact

05/23/07 @876

very nice work with this, great composition. Just wish there was more contrast and lines more defined, but that's probably a presentation problem you can fix in PS. good one +9

aiscape

05/27/07 @860

Nice colors, it's apparent you have a special technique. Like the dynamic in this one. Well done.

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