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Submitted: June 19, 2007
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This is a scratchboard illustration of Jazz musician Carl Kress.

Something totally new and different for me. This assignment was the first of the reductive technique assignments I had to do for class. In reductive work, things are removed, rather than added like in pencil and ink drawings. So with that, I had to work negatively, removing everything from the scratchboard that was white in the reference photo. Aside from working negatively, I had to scratch out parts with a knife tool--something totally different from the usual pencil drawings.

Surprisingly, the teacher said all students had the best results when working in this medium. I will definitely work more in this medium in the future.

Done with 112 point scratch knife on black scratchboard.

Reference image can be found here.

Original photograph © William P. Gottlieb and The Library of Congress
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OMG IT LOOKS VERY LIKE A REAL PHOTO FAVE!!!!!
Superb work indeed. You are truly an artist of many talents. :)

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that's like... :o hand made 3d? I can almost count the polys!
*awesomeness throws manganiac againts the back wall*
*and the ground*
*and the front wall*
*and the ground again*
This is not a photo?

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Great... I know perfection does not exists in art, but I just wanna say: it is perfect!

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not usually the kind of thing i'm interested in or looking for when it comes to drawings, but this is just so well done. I love the angle. and the detail is absolutely amazing. great, outstanding artwork you've got here.
Very nice work!!

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Heheh, yea, that's what one classmate told me: that it looked like a 3-D wire frame model. Thanx for the comment and fave (^-^)!

*~Manganiac regains consciousness*
*gets up*
*Christie appears out of nowhere*
*~Manganiac is thrown against the back wall... again*
*the vicious cycle continues for an hour...*

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