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Submitted: March 27, 2011
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Ian Somerhalder as Damonby *Ilojleen

Traditional Art / Drawings / Portraits & Figures

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This drawing cannot be used without my written permission.

MORE PORTRAITS OF IAN:

size: A4
Koh-I-Noor pencils: F - 6B, a kneaded eraser, a regular eraser, a few coloured pencils of Faber Castell and Toison D’or Polycolor
time: approx. 40h
the reference photo: [link]
WIPs: [link] and Details: [link]
an entry for the TVD contest: [link]

First of all, dedications:

in the first place, it's dedicated to Karolina, my mate from university. As I mentioned in the description of Imprisoned, she was strongly encouraging me to see "Vampire Diaries". I succumbed. Now we enjoy drooling together when we see Damon
also dedicated to *arthawk87, a huge fan of the elder Salvatore brother. Franziska, I adore your art and hope it encourages you to draw a photorealistic portrait of Damon :>
last but not least, dedicated to dear ~victory-a13, my big Hungarian sis, who is a sucker for vampires [yay, pun! ^^] and whom I love to talk with Treat it as encouragement to start watching the show ^^

[I guess this portrait is powered by encouragements haha ]

About the portrait:

Since a couple of years ago I was very fond of Ian as Boone in "Lost", as soon as I saw him as Damon, I re-fell in love [old love never gets rusty] and I thought I had to portray Somerhalder again.

I found this awesome, very popular reference photo and decided to change it a little bit in order to my caprice and in order to make this portrait different than others. I like this red-eyes-visible-veins thing when vampires are craving for blood and it made me play with his eyes. This simply shows the two natures of Damon: the bad vampire's side and the more human one. See how skillful Salvatore is? He can do his red eye trick with one eye!
[No reference for the veins ]
And man, I struggled a lot with the background. It took me too much time.

Enjoy, you're always welcome to comment and fave

P.S. I love his bitchy smirk

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