Rostropovich

[Klaus Nordby]

Valery, thanks for the layer screengrab, very interesting. And you know Russian, too - amazing man you are! ;-)

[RUSS-USSR]

When I do any picture I use so many variants of techniques and actually I don`t think about future titorials, so I have to remember what I did step by step. Main question for me is which step was a first and which a last one. Instead of talking around I send a zoomed part of portrait.

[raynerj]

Hi Valery,

Something just dawned on me. Now I know why so many artists draw old people. They have much more detail than a young woman for instance.

[rebeen]

wow that's ....just absoltely awesome
good jop thinkas for sharing

[Delta Moon]

So, ya think if I just scribbled a bunch of lines I could come up with a masterpiece like this? BTW, I think he looks quite a bit like Dick Cheney

[RAMWolff44]

Oooo, you do havea cruel streak in you Delta!!

[raynerj]

"So, ya think if I just scribbled a bunch of lines I could come up with a masterpiece like this?" - Delta Moon

Try it Delta. You will find out it is much easier and much harder than it looks. Some parts are easier, some are much, much harder. A face is relatively easy. Hair is a royal pain!

[Delta Moon]

Well, ahem, the answer is no...skribbling in wire does not a masterpiece make. But thanks for the encouragement.

[raynerj]

Art is in the eye of the beholder. If you are too blind to see the masterpiece in the "wire", then it is your loss and you have my pity.

[RUSS-USSR]

Now I`m not enough ripened to decide what tutorial will be interesting for you guys. You are so different and have various level of experience and it seems to me that all possible tutorials were done due to Garry support. So I decided to show layers slicing of a portrait.