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Submitted: August 24, 2011
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The true violinistby *Ilojleen

Traditional Art / Drawings / Portraits & Figures

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_{EDIT: PLEASE REFRAIN FROM INFORMING ME IT LOOKS LIKE KAMELOT'S GHOST OPERA CD COVER. I know it It's because my drawing was based on the same stock photo, and I discovered it earlier, right after I had started drawing The true violinist. I had already had this concept in my head and the fact it's Kamelot's CD cover didn't affect on my idea at all.}
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A DAILY DEVIATION!!! MY FIRST ONE! Wow, I can't believe it Huge thanks and hugs go to =ArielRGH for making my dream come true...I have never expected it to happen, so being awarded it made me incredibly happy! Thank you, Ariel
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size: A4
pencils, H - 8B, a regular eraser and a kneaded eraser, a white gel pen
time: I lost the track of time, but 30 hours I guess?
reference photo: Girl with the Violin 3
WIPs: [link]

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Yehudi Menuhin

_{About the subject | the choice of the reference photo}

Once I found this photo Girl with the Violin 3 by ~b-e-c-k-y-stock, I knew I had to draw it. This picture speaks with emotions. It well depicts how important they are for musicians while playing the instruments. The emotions which are visible at those moments confirm their credibility. An emotionless musician just plays. The true musician creates music, lives the music. It comes straight from their heart. He or she can get lost in music.
Music can't be properly expressed on paper - words can't describe it. However, music is described by notes. Each and every note symbolizes sound. The notes you can see in the drawing aren't random. It's "Toccata & Fugue in D minor" of Johann Sebastian Bach, written especially for the violin.

_{About the drawing}

The stave is drawn from my imagination. It wasn't a piece of cake to draw all these curves of lines. I had to be very focused with the notes. As the lines bended, turned, diverted, I needed to change their positions, rotations - so, some of them are reversed horizontally and vertically. Unfortunately, I made two big mistakes by accident: I drew an extra note and drew the G-clef in the wrong place. It should have been placed in the right bottom corner as it's the 1st note which starts the composition.
I dislike the background :C I'm pretty sure I will never ever draw it as neatly as I want to. It always turns out dirty.

Hope you like it! It's important to me if you do, as it's not a thing I usually draw and I put a lot of my heart and soul into it Have a wonderful evening

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The true violinist by *Ilojleen

Category: Traditional Art: Pencils, White-Gel Pen and Kneaded Eraser:

The suggester says, "*Ilojleen's technique is just great, and here she took artistic license to render a wonderful image with graphite pencils. I strongly suggest everyone to check her entire gallery, also her fanart works." ( Suggested by =ArielRGH and Featured by `WDWParksGal )

Critique by *gregchapin Aug 28, 2011, 5:30:18 AM

Thank you for sharing an amazing drawing. It really shows how much emotion a pencil drawing can portray through the motion of the flowing hair, the flowing musical notes and the tensed fingers on the strings. The rectangle in the background us a wonderful contrast to the animated violinist who is breaking free of conventions. There's hardly anything that could have been done better in my opinion. There are a few items that I think would have made it even better. This is the picky stuff and by no means should take away the fact that this is a great drawing! 1. the contrast on the string fingers seems a little muddy. 2. The area of the mouth and nose seems a little overworked. 3. I would have softened the ear a little. 4.I may have added a little highlight movement lines around the bow to match the action of the hair and the flowing notes.

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