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I did this piece of the very lovely * bionic7 using one of his stock photos as reference ([link]). I would have painted this (I probably will later) but since my tablet is currently in a crippled state-- screw it.

I spent atleast twelve hours on this. His face took me about an hour, but the pinstripe took forever to do. Literally. Over the course of three days and tons of TV and coke to keep me alert, I finished it. I've never watched so much TV in my life-- well, listened to it... I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire twice, and then Dracula 2000, which I shouldn't have, since I was constantly laughing at how awful it is... it absolutely butchered the book.. sigh. Oh, and 28 Days Later, which turned out to be a pretty good movie. Then I watched anything that was on TV (which wasn't much but paid programming for viagra, male enchancement informercials with men yelling, 'omgitreallyworks!', cooking infomercials, and girls gone wild infomericials... which I swear, by the time that the guys have seen the bloody ads they don't NEED to get the DVD...) But that's not the point...

I didn't really know HOW to go about the pinstripe, so I just drew the outlines of the white stripes in the shirt and then coloured around it. Then I darkened certain areas of the shirt to give it form and such. I didn't draw the jeans in because it'd have been too distracting... but! The shirt! ...I'm all proud of it. Anyways... I'll probably end up doing more of Alex, just because he's so damn lovely.

Time: 12 hours
Pencils used: Mechanical .5mm for detailing on the hair and eyes and smaller areas of the shirt; a mechanical .7mm pencil; and two 2HB pencils (one is cheaper than the other and draws darker, which is excellent for shading... gotta love dollar-store pencils... so cheap!).

I realllly need to get some better pencils to use. Ugh....

Comments, crits, favs, whatever, are appreciated.

`Allie