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This is a drawing of Spider, a man I spent a lot of time with on my recent trip to Mornington Island, Australia. He's the oldest man on the island and one of the 6 or 7 remaining speakers of his quickly-dying language. As a linguistics graduate student, I was there with one of my professors helping Spider's tribe, the Lardil, to document and hopefully save their language from extinction.
The photo I used as a reference can be found at [link] -- it's my photo, as well. More info on Spider is available at that link, too. Black, white, brown, and grey Conte on brown Strathmore paper. Comments and suggestions are, as always, greatly appreciated! Please add this to your favorites  if you think it's deserving. Also, please let me know if you think I should do anything with the background. Daily DeviationGiven 2002-08-11Old Spider Freehand by withani was suggested to me by my good friend, nieman. He proposed to feature this to draw attention to the cultural art here on deviantART. I agreed completely which is why I'm showing you this amazing piece with a wonderful and touching story to back it up. (Selected by $matteo) (Featured by °matteo) |
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Yea, I think it's definitely deserving of a fav...
You captured it perfectly... the shine of his skin, the leathery texture, the rough wrinkles, the eyes and the lines around them, the highlights and shadows are done just perfectly.
Even the hair is done great.. I always at hair, regardless of what I use..
The shape, the chin, it's all just so perfect and realistic.. you did an excellent job recreating him. I can see just as much of a story in this, as I can the photo itself, so this is just done marvelously...
Very good use of the media. I think this makes it as my first fav.
*thinks about what he's seen from you* poetry, freehand drawing, photography, and logical discourse in the forums... and all of this from a linguistics student? Amazing. Let me know when you cure that pesky cancer.
High points of this for me are the reflections on his forehead and nose, and the explosive hair all around his head. When I saw your pictures of him in the gallery, I was thinking of asking you for permission to draw him, but you've beaten me to the punch... and done a much better job than I would have anyway.
+fav for sure.
-PL-
worthy? methinks so!
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your work in linguistics sounds cool. I hope you really really like it
Too bad his hair ran off the top edge of the page a bit. Things like that bother me but that is probably my problem.
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