Serenity - WIP 4

Hey people!

It has been a while since I last uploaded a work in progress of my Mike Portnoy drawing because I haven't been doing so great. But, as you can see, last night I was able to work 5 hours straight and today I worked another 2 hours on this project as well. (:

Oh boy do I love Dream Theater.


Epic live song: The Spirit Carries On
Epic heavy song: The Shattered Fortress - Guitar Hero style

Any DT fans out here? Lemme know!


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About the Drawing

...~ Upper image ~...
<sub>This photo shows the actual size of the drawing, which is A3 (12" x 16" / 30cm x 40cm) and how I put this collage together.

That's my hand in the left lower corner.
You can see how small the figures actually are compared with my hand (but then again... I got really teeny tiny hands so it's still a bit hard to see). I want this thing to get as detailed as possible.</sub>


...~ Lower image ~...
_{A Close-up of the right part of the drawing. This part may look very easy to you to draw, but it wasn't! I used a combo of regular and mechanical HB and 2B pencils and smudged them with a tissue and Q-tip and took me about 7 hours to draw. le sigh!}


4 things I kept thinking about while drawing this:

One
I'm either really stupid or completely insane (or both) for starting and working on this project. What kind of idiot spends endless hours on drawing the details no-one will ever notice? That would be me.

Two
"I Gotta Feeling" is the most annoying song I've heard in a long time. It's on the radio 24/7. And even if the radio has been turned off, it continues playing in my head over and over again.
Thank you, Black Eyed Peas. D:

Three
"Lets Do it, Lets Do it. I Gotta Feeli-"dammit!

Four
Despite that this will take me forever to finish, I want to get it done within the next few days.

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About the Process

Luckily the Message Center is working again whoohoo!
For those who didn't receive my works for a few months, a short summary:

I'm a huge, HUGE fan of the band Dream Theater and their drummer in particular who has inspired me tremendously. So that made me decide to draw him after 7 years of waiting, as I posted the 1st draft 2 months ago.

I received some exclusive photos from a photographer of the band, and she let me use her photos to finish my drawing.


Check out the previous WIPs if you like:
Work in Progress 1
Work in Progress 2 / Tools of the Trade
Work in Progress 3


That was a long description for a work in progress, sorry.