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size: A4 Koh-I-Noor pencils: F - 6B, a kneaded eraser, a regular eraser, a few coloured pencils of Faber-Castell and Koh-I-Noor Toison D’or Polycolor time: approx. 40h the reference photo: www.fanpirediaries.com/wp-cont…
WIPs: ilojleen.deviantart.com/art/Ia… and Details: ilojleen.deviantart.com/art/Ia… an entry for the TVD contest: dark-fantasy.deviantart.com/ar…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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Vision Originality Technique ImpactAlright, since I saw you want a critique, hear it is. I love the way you have the background so dark so the eye can catch what it needs to,but also gives it something to look at as well. I like how you have his normal eye on one side of his face as well as the vampire eye. It gives the drawing depth, and incorporates the bad and the bit better sides of Damon in one drawing. What I would suggest is that you maybe add some blood, just a drop, to a side of his mouth to also add to the vampire eye you have drawn