Iwo Jima drawing

[maddafinga]

This is a crappy scan of a drawing that took a very long time but came out excellently.  The original burned up in my apartment fire a couple of years ago.  I'll post some more drawings later on, until then, here ya go.  Sorry for the crappy scan, it's a few years old now and just copies of copies.  Maybe if I find the disc of the original scan one of these days I'll post the better quality original scan of it.

[BluTrain]

  Very nice work

[Curval]

No kidding...wow.  That is talent you have there.  Just look at the shirts..the folds etc...detail is incredible.  Well done.

[Rich46yo]

This is a crappy scan of a drawing that took a very long time but came out excellently.  The original burned up in my apartment fire a couple of years ago.  I'll post some more drawings later on, until then, here ya go.  Sorry for the crappy scan, it's a few years old now and just copies of copies.  Maybe if I find the disc of the original scan one of these days I'll post the better quality original scan of it.

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It looks like you drew over the original, or copied it somehow, changing a few details like the flag position. Its "copies of copies" alright.
All that detail and yet you missed the flag position.

[AKP]

Nice work Madda...  don't worry about the critics, I too enjoy drawing.  More of a "Pen and Inker" myself... but I can appreciate the time it took you to do this.

[Unit791]

I like it, but....the flag is going the wrong way.

[AKP]

Yes, the flag is going the wrong way... but this is probably why.  It appears he drew the picture on a piece of paper turned sideways (landscape).  It looks like he started drawing the troops first... then ran out of room for the flagpole.  The flagpole in his picture is shorter than the one in the photo, and in order to be able to see more of the flag, he made it fly the opposite way.  If he had made it fly the same direction as the one in the photo, you would only see a few stripes at the bottom.

Again... great job, and awesome detail.  I know it took you a lot of time... no criticism on my end 

[Kazaa]

Golly-gee, that's some amazing talent!

[Ack-Ack]

See Rule #4

[Kermit de frog]

See Rule #2

[Shuffler]

Very nice indeed.

[shreck]

See Rules #2, #4

[akusher]

See Rules #2, #4

[maddafinga]

It looks like you drew over the original, or copied it somehow, changing a few details like the flag position. Its "copies of copies" alright.
All that detail and yet you missed the flag position.

I started to be a little angry about that, but then I realised that it was something of a compliment.  No, I didn't trace it or use a grid or a projection or anything like that at all.  I used only my eyes and my hands.  I've had people ask me if I traced it, but never accuse me like you somwhat rudely did there.  I feel about as good at that accusation as I would about someone accusing me of cheating in the MA.  So, Thank You! 

The flag is in that position because I ran out of room on the paper.  I initially got fascinated by all the textures and shades in the folds of the clothes and so set out to draw the guys on their own.  As it progressed, and seemed to be taking shape well it just seemed wrong not to have the flag in the picture.  Since on an 8.5x11 page is only so tall when it's turned long ways, I improvised.  I didn't want to leave the flag out so that was my solution. 

If you think about it, if I were tracing the pic, I'd have noticed that would be a problem right from the start and just used a bigger sheet of paper, and it never would have been an issue at all. 

I do appreciate the compliment though, thanks.

[maddafinga]

Nice work Madda...  don't worry about the critics, I too enjoy drawing.  More of a "Pen and Inker" myself... but I can appreciate the time it took you to do this.

Thanks AKP!  It did take a long time and a good bit of effort to get things just right. I get obsessed on detail easily and can tend to go overboard.  The only pen and ink that I have is this drawing of a panda I did using plain old bic ballpoint pen.  It's a quick and dirty job, took maybe a half an hour (and it shows IMO)


Edited to add:  Thanks for all the kind words everyone, it makes me feel good when people enjoy my obsessive compulsions.