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Oh you are blessed with creativity and talent and your skill as an artist is most evident on this piece! Love it!

Love this, the play of light and shade is great and the expression works so well.

This is a fantastic piece. Well done.

beautiful, very dramatic, excellent expression. LOVE!

I also would have never guessed this is pencil. Well done
xkc

Love your style here… the eyes are amazing!

Pencil drawing – are you kidding? Fantastic!

beautiful!

Stinning work-speaks volumes-you captured so many emotions here….

Oh! This is amazing! You are very talented!

This is truly beautiful! Love it!!!

I love the progressor pencils used them a lot when I was young. Your results here put all my drawings to shame, its marvelouss!

Lovely artwork! Very beautiful drawing and composition.

you draw really well, would like to see more of it

yes i’d love to see more too! this is fantastic – you are very talented!

Thanks everyone. I’m surprised this has been so popular on here and everywhere else.. there’s not much to it. I’ll try to get some more pencil work up soon.. I just don’t have copies of them on the computer anymore, have to re-shoot them. Cheers again.

Love this one

I’ve seen this around before!!! Fantastic image!

Brilliant, Love the dramatised tension works brilliantly

Awesome!

Amazing! Not enough words to describe.

This is awesome! I too thought it was a b&w photo at first. Very nice image and nice composition.

Thanks guys. I’ve had a lot of people mistake this for a photo.. I look at it and just can’t see how. But I take it as a compliment anyway.

This is truely talented. i love it

your talent is awesome, great capture of expression, shades and tones perfect.

Johdie, this is superb. I had to take a closer look from the groups area, to make sure it wasn’t a photograph submitted to the wrong group!!

Haha thanks Lee. I hadn’t thought of that when I put it up there.

Brilliant drawing – Amazing job…

Wow! thats brilliant !

screams Hitchcock to me…

this reminds me of those old school comics, like 1950’s or something? I wish i knew more so i could explain it better, but the girl would have had yellow blonde hair and exactly that expression while tlaking on the phone. Brilliant I love it

this is sweeeet, very impressive (realistic) :)

very nice pencil drawing well done

stunning

Congratulations johdie, this is our FEATURED PORTRAIT this week and the current group icon for 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture

Holly Shit!! This is the story of my life. Fantastic!

thats a gorgeous portrait!

Wow, I thought it was a black and white photo, your pencil work is amazing, your are so very talented. Love the eyes and the expression. Fantastic!!

oh gosh this is delightful its bloody amazing

nice style, looks like a painting, cool.

Fabulous work

WOW!! Gorgeous work!

breathtaking.

just GORGEOUS!!

This is such an amazing pencil drawing. I’m in awe

This is just wonderful.

Gorgeous interplay of light and shadow; and the emotion is very raw.

this is gorgeous! fab work!

beautiful!

Incredible drawing! So expressive. I too thought it was a b & w photograph! Congrats on making homepage!

wonderful work!

Awesome tones. Congratulations on the feature.

This is an amazing picture! Great work!

Really, really superb pencil work.

If I didn’t favourite this before… I’m doing it now.

I missed the homepage but thanks for all your comments guys. Much appreciated.

Amazing. You are blessed with an abundance of talent!

How is it possible that I have only just come across your folio?!? What an amazing exquisite talent you have!! And the second name doesn’t hurt either! LOL This is wonderful.

I love this!

oh my.
i wish i could actually draw like this
i thought it was a photo
but i see i am mistaken
lovely drawing:)

Your work is really amazing…this is very interesting

You captured the emotion perfectly!

Awesome…I thought it was a photograph!!

you’re really good

that looks like charcoal,
wonderfull
i just love it

wonderful work!!

wow…PENCIL ?? really? this is just AMAZING! wow!

this face remembers me someone..

beautiful.