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This one is dear to my heart. Being an Organic Chemistry major, I've done quite a bit of this stuff, but this guy's a little new at it and has surprised the heck out of himself. I'm playing with light sources and shadows in out-of-the-ordinary places. This is done completely in 6B pencil. It's not done. *Please* any ideas?

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The Alchemist - SciFi and Fantasy Art by George Karl Kaufman
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Categories: [Elf / Elves] [Magic and Sorcery, Spells, etc.] [Man, Men]
Techniques: [Pencil/Graphite Pen] [Erasers]
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30 Sep 200045 Kelly Turnbull
OOOOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lookit da rat! It's Blackjack!! He's gonna use that little concoction to turn it into a giant rodent, right? (I notice all the little things)

Now you have me **very** curious. Who's Blackjack?
2 Oct 2000:-) Alex Aal
Perhaps you can add a shelfs with books behind him. Aslo the area beneath the table needs to be very dark.
2 Oct 200045 Maria 'Arrow' Rodriguez
Cool, I always love stories about Alchemists they're interesting to think about the people who thought out of the box.
8 Oct 200045 Victoria E. Brennan
I love the glowing effect you got with your lighting. The facial expression is great!! Awesome pic 2
8 Oct 2000:-) Carrie Gross
Hmm, This is really groovy. I know it's unfinished, so I feel more comfortable giving friendly tips... I might be completely off the mark on this, but perhaps you could have some of the light bouncing off the table to hit the bottom of his sleeves. And I agree w/ the person who said the area beneath the table needs to be dark. Make the walls behind him a little darker, too, cos the light would be dissipating as it gets farther away from the source. *peace*
20 Oct 2000:-) Liang Ding
ah... alchemistry, science of the dreamers... pretty fascinating stuff. since you are obviously quite good at shading, my best suggestion is that you should finish... and a version of this in color could be really cool....I can just imagine...dark room..glowing test tubes and beackers.. ^_^ oh by the way, that astonished look on his face is really well done.
22 Oct 200045 Dennis Lee Sherwood
Wow this has the impresion that he mixed the wrong chemicals and they flashed.
4 Nov 2000:-) Linda Gock
The lighting effect is really effective, but I think you can still afford to pay more attention to the face and the shading there, as it is quite a focal point in the pic.
8 Nov 2000:-) Nadia L. Vélez
It looks cool. Is the light source in the table, cuz from the shadows that's what it looks like. I like this one.

Yes, in fact, it's coming from the glass container on the table. 2
14 Feb 2001:-) Julie R. Kowalski
Ya know...ya really outta do more figure drawings and more realism like this one because you really have a knack for the shading, expression and anatomy...this is one of my fav's.....do more like this!
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