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Cover Story: Goin' Berzerk with Eminem (view source)
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stretched and sketched ‘cause that’s
just what i do to you”
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The artist, I mean me, I mean I, I now starts lightly covering up the rest of
the background and skin, making that ear recede by adding that cool, light
background blue to it.
(I must eventually learn the actual names of these colors, as they’re on the box!)
Now I painstakingly start to tediously blend the background smooth with the
exhaustingly ridiculous method of caking a full artstix into the very pores of the
paper. This takes a few days (or an hour or so). The paper begins to curl at this
point, and it begins to feel waxy and reflect light, energy and cameras in addition
to reflecting upon its life as a sheet of paper and what a strange life that is.
(y’all remember “The Real Slim Shady”)<br>
“I’m Slim shading,<br>
Yes, I’m really shading<br>
After all that Slim sketching I’m finally shading<br>
He won’t have much skin pigment, he’s so pale, he’s so pale, he’s so pale”<br>
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(á la “Cleaning out my Closet”)<br>
“Picket signs for my artstick lines,
making moms whine,<br>
Sick of the constant bumpin’
motherf***in’ kids that are cryin’ ”<br>
I blend the ears smoother with pink.
Later I’ll realize that they are too bright
and take away from the eyes’ focus<br>
(SPOILER).<br>
Ok. So I didn’t think I would use black
in this piece and that in doing…. (uh)
not so… it would be an interesting
color palette choice. However, I now
realize that to punch this drawing
in the face balls I’ll need to use the
darkest of all pigments, colors and
hues. I add it to the pupils, upper
eyelids and eyelashes and to the
background, afterwards lightening the
background with more of that light
blue whose name I still don’t know
(the box is like 10 feet away, but, like I
have time for that, pshhshshSSHHH).
(sounds like “Sing for the Moment”)<br>
“They say that art can alter moods and
talk to you<br>
Well it can if you draw up a big blue
cockatoo!<br>
See, what these kids do is, hear about
us totin’ artstix, and<br>
They wanna get some, cuz, they’re sold
at Dick Blick’s
Not knowin’, we re<br>ally just be drawlrin’
ourselves<br>
We caricaturists, of course we draw
big ears on those elves, you big-pored
anus!”<br>
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Time to spread some COLOR!<br>
I don’t want my colors to be boring and separate from each other; instead, I want them to mingle and play with each other!
Weeee! I also want to create an emphasis for this drawl-ring. I want the eyes to have the most contrast, the only white of the
drawing, the only pure black, the vibrantest of all the vibrancies of colors and the overall focus. So that means muting the rest
of the drawing and making it less intense and vibrant, more middle-valued and less crisp and detailed. Most of this I accomplish
by laying a layer of laid-down light blue and by graying most of the sketch with bits of black smoothed out with white:
strokes of blue on that phallic phorehead
yellowing the purple eyebrow devil horns
lightening up that nose cave
cooling off his 5 o’clock butt
making his skin white-er and fish belly-er
ahhh, the power of blue. delish!
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Yeah, those eyes weren’t workin’. They
didn’t stand out enough or pierce the
veil of your mind, as the kids say. So I
erase out some of that darkness and
retry that retina, creating spinning
pinwheels of hypnotic hellraisers. More
shadow is needed under Em’s eyes as
well. I want that fire to show behind
his eyes. He’s a demon dragon, dawg.
(a lot like “White America”)<br>
“Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby,
intense as hell.<br>
If they were brown, Shady’d look,
somethin’ more like myself.<br>
Let’s do the math; if I use black, there is
more contrast. I didn’t have to gradiate
or make all the colors look wack.”
TEXTURE + CONTRAST + VIBRANT COLORS = INTENSE INTENSITY!
EYE RECOVERY!!!
(goin’ “Berzerk”)<br>
“Well they say that art is powerful with
contrast and emphasis<br>
All I know is I whited-out; his eyes are
frickin’ laser beams, sis!”<br>
So there ya go; this is how I achieve
my patented “dream drawing™©”
technique. It’s exhausting, takes
forever and could probs be achieved
quicker, easier and better with pastels.
But hey, it’s been fun, guys! And by the
way, if you steal this technique for your
own work, I’ma k!%% you.....
I’m just playin’, b!%$#es. You know I
love you ;)
You can find me on facebook and
instagram and the interwebs as
Eric Goodwin Art
and on youtube as me and others as
Eric Goodwin
You guys have been great! Buh-bye :)
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