Hey Guys,
as you have presumably already recognised in the headline, the reason for the journal entry is pretty simple. I finally broke through the wall of 10 000 pgvs.
Therefore I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for dropping by, faving, watching and especially commenting on my works.
It truly makes me happy to see, that even though I am (with my 8 drawings in 16 months) not really one of the most active deviants here, still so many made it here.
I am really touched by the popularity of "Sanity" in particular, that surpassed all expectations I had when I started with the drawing (15,936 views, 742 favs and 373 comments). Back then I was just overwhelmed by the expression of the reference photo by mehmet turgut so that I couldn't help but to start drwaing it.
2 weeks later I almost put it to the scrap paper since I still had no answer of mehmet turgut regarding my request-note for his approval for using it as a reference.
But then I decided that it shouldn't end like that and started a last attempt, I submitted a WIP of the drawing and wrote another request with a link to the WIP (and the annnouncement that I would delete it again if he doesn't agree with it), this time in his messege box on the front page of witch I knew that he was reading it.
When I logged in the next day I already came up with many eventualities regarding his reply, but that he would fav my drawing and ask me not to stop was definitely not one of them.
I don't knwo how it feels to get a DD, but when you are small fry with twothousand pageviews like me and there comes this guy with over twomillion pageviews to fave one of your drawings, then that's qutite something!
Well I tried to make the best out of it, decided to submit it for the "villians" contest of the portraitpencilart-club where it actually made the 3. place.
Unfortunately many months passed since this submission in which I couldn't find the time to draw. Maybe in two months I will have enough spare time again for another project. I am still learning and though I tried to use in every drawing a different technique there are still many to go.
But enough of the talk, I announced a special. Even though I was not able to create a new drawing, I wasn't totally inactive. I made a new account for photography only, that can be found here :
~Salman-Fides. hope you like the shots
With best regards,
Frank