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Woodless graphite/charcoal pencil drawing of Bane - "The Bane of My Existence" (imgur.com)

submitted ago by portraitpatriot

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[–]NominalAeon 16 points17 points ago

Sometimes, when I get really nervous...

[–]ProperPapaPanda 10 points11 points ago

Your shading is incredible! The overall drawing is amazing, very good job. :)

[–]Scodo 5 points6 points ago

That's just fantastic.

[–]NINE_HUNDRED 4 points5 points ago

Looks brilliant, I want to see more.

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 4 points5 points ago

Unfortunately I don't have a website dedicated to my work just yet. This is the first piece I was satisfied with enough to share somewhere other than my Facebook page. If you would really like to see more, I would be more than happy to share the link with you.

[–]NINE_HUNDRED 2 points3 points ago

Would love to see more of your work. Upload to Imgur if you'd prefer not to share your Facebook.

[–]Lairosiel 1 point2 points ago

this was mentioned before .. but this is an awesome/amazing/fantastic drawing.

[–]The_Tavinator 5 points6 points ago

HOLY HELL! I am in awe of your work. And now I wish I had a real video game studio cuz i would throw money at you... but the reality is that I can only say "wanna make game art with us?"

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 11 points12 points ago

If you're going to throw money, please don't throw coins. A serious head injury could leave me drooling profusely and drawing stick figures with Crayons. I would be of no use to you.

[–]The_Tavinator 6 points7 points ago

I like the cut of your jib! You're Hired! How get into the money chamber and catch your years salary of monopoly dollars.

[–]BROOKS21 2 points3 points ago

thats just fantastic work!

[–]seahorses4lyfe 0 points1 point ago

Holy shit. It almost looks like a photo. You are so talented. And I am so jealous!

[–]Wolf_Father 0 points1 point ago

well now im going to cry myself to sleep for being artistically inadequate

[–]Whitehead3129 1 point2 points ago

That's awesome man

[–]zebre 1 point2 points ago

already posted and user deleted on /r/Art, is this your submission?

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 2 points3 points ago

Yes, but I took a lot of heat for posting on /r/Art without fully understanding the purpose behind each subreddit.

[–]KalElButthead 9 points10 points ago

I read that thread, it was cringe inducing. I'm all for subreddits having rules and whatnot, but when I see "The Sheriff" of a subreddit show up and start telling people what not to post, it's just pathetic. I get it though.

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 11 points12 points ago

I blame myself for not being more aware of where I was submitting it too. Blinded by the excitement of sharing my drawing, or pencil rendering, as the /r/Art Sheriff put it, with somewhere other than Facebook, I stumbled into the lion's den. Heavily outnumbered and armed with only a pencil and my wit, I was bent over a barrell and shown the fifty states. After several hours of weeping softly and staining my sketchbook with warm tears, I came to my senses. I may have been discouraged from ever posting on /r/Art again, but I refuse to be discouraged from drawing altogether.

[–]itsnotthateasy 7 points8 points ago

/r/Art are a bunch of pretentious cock suckers. I'v never posted there but I'v seen many awesome works get poo poo'd by the "artists" there for being copys of photos. this is amazing work and I'd love to see half the haters in /r/Art do anything of this standard.

[–]spookieghost 0 points1 point ago

Why didn't they like this picture? Does /r/Art only allow original work or something? Is it bad to use copy photos? Someone in the original thread wrote

Your drawing is an attempt at exact replication of someone else's image. Someone else's art.

ok...personally I enjoy going on DeviantArt sometimes to check out drawings/paintings of photos and stills from movies and subjects I like, because as close as they seem to the original material visually, there's always personality in the art. I see the artist's vision and how the artist saw it through his/her own eyes...but obviously some people from /r/art think otherwise.

[–]LeonTheWorst 1 point2 points ago

its just like real life art cliques!

[–]Noah_JK 1 point2 points ago

This is an exceptionally good drawing, but the majority of fan-art isn't very good. I think that's the thing, people are just sick of fan-art in /r/Art.

[–]byronh1016 0 points1 point ago

That is quite amazing

[–]pythagoras_rex 0 points1 point ago

damn... just damn...

[–]shitty_pencils 0 points1 point ago

holy shit

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

This is spectacular. Keep up the good work!

[–]ImaginationStation -1 points0 points ago

It is mad impressive to get such amazing rendering with woodless pencils and charcoal, especially the tight work around his mask! How big is this piece?

[–]spencerb17 -1 points0 points ago

Why the hell would anyone down vote this?

[–]claire2306 -1 points0 points ago

that's amazing and just perfect. i'm so jealous of your talent!

[–]lie07 -1 points0 points ago

why do you have to be so talented?
Amazing work though

[–]Airsinner 0 points1 point ago

I love woodless graphite pencils!! They are so good! I need to pick some up!!! This drawing is amazing!

[–]MooseCaca 0 points1 point ago

Do you sell your work? Honestly. I would love to purchase this. We have a "nerd room" in my house (basically all drawings of videogame/comic book/star wars characters) and I would LOVE to have this in there!

[–]JakeCameraAction -1 points0 points ago

How long did this take? Did you trace it?

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 9 points10 points ago

Took about 12 hours of work over a period of three days. I wouldn't have put forth that much effort and suffered through carpal tunnel for a tracing.

[–]tc02net -1 points0 points ago

Perhaps it's not traced, but it obviously came from this image http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bane-620x387.jpg

[–]portraitpatriot[S] 6 points7 points ago

I provided the same image in the imgur description as a source.

[–]jmathrockthepath -1 points0 points ago

This is incredible, I can't wait to see more of your work. It's just so perfect!

[–]imdrunkontea -1 points0 points ago

freakin awesome. really sets the mood with the lighting, too.

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