Elizabeth Swann

Keira Knightley from Pirates of the Caribbean, At World´s End.
I love all the Potc- movies. I can watch them over and over again!

Hours:
Only God knows! xD Maybe 20 hours, or more.
I really don´t know, but at the time I drew it I thought it took forever.
Especially the clothing. And then the scanner ate up all the black and made it white-ish instead, because I had been drawing too hard on the paper.
I had to redo all the black in Photoshop afterwards. It didn´t help just to mix with the contrasts. And that took some hours too... xD!

Made with:
Faber Castell graphite pencils
Kneaded eraser
Erasers
Blending stumps
My right hand

A4

Edit:
When I made this, I thought it really looked like her.
And sure, it does look like her, but now when I look at the ref. picture I can see that I made a few pretty major mistakes.
I wasn´t really ready to take on such a complicate picture at this point, but it was a challenge.
I love challenges. Or well, love is a very strong word xD, but atleast I learn from them.

And I learned a lot when I made this. Patience is one thing.
My drawings only take longer and longer time to do, because I see more details and I allow them to take the time needed.

Anyway, so I made this a couple of months ago, and now I wanted to make it a little better.
I can honestly say that I like it much more after I added some colour. You can think whatever you want about the change xD but atleast I am satisfied.
And I guess that means something, atleast.


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