Dan the Doodlebug 3 ✏️🎨✏️🎨✏️ (Amazing Phil Edition)

Amazing One
I love to take photos of my works in progress. See how they grow,

from start to finish. It also helps me to look at it from a different

angle and light source while I'm in the middle of drawing. 

I light to start off with blocks and work my way across. Completing 

sections at a time. This portrait of Phil is adorned with Roses and filigree,

each delicately balancing and allowing the portrait of him to pop free

from the frame. The lettering below (not shown in photos) swoops in and

twists around a free area in his chest then roses fill in below it. 

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*Partials and slides are shown because people have often tried to watermark

some of my work or sell it on designs, claiming it as their own.Thank you

for understanding.*

Amazing Two 

This Phil started out a little bit different than the first. I centred it on a realistic

heart locket. I'd seen on several tattoo design sights and I wanted to use it in one

of my creations. I loved the flow of the entire piece, wanting the roses to bloom

around him and Phil being the focal piece. I decided that filigree would only distract

in this case, so it only emboldens the heart locket. I worked off a memory of a black

t-shirt he was wearing and created a custom Pokemon t-shirt for him in the portrait

as he's a massive Pokemon fan. It now lays unfinished on my desk. Perhaps one day

I'll be able to finish him. I chose to do shots in different zooms, but at the same sort of 

angle to capture all the detail in the portrait to capture every tiny detail as it unfolded,

bloomed through the tip of my pencil.

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Amazing Three 

The start of the new year and I wanted to take a bit of a journey

down memory lane. I'd not done a younger Phil portrait and I 

decided to venture back through thousands of hours of film

and countless images to find one that I wanted to do. In the picture

that I found, I found something that resonated within me. The hint

of sadness in the bewitching blue of his eyes. The questions of youth

and the struggle of questioning who you are & where you fit.  I needed

to capture it. I started off with a lace heart, commonly done in a lot 

of love or feminine tattoos and I wanted to expand on that. I used 

peonies, a simple of love, knowledge and spirituality to start encasing 

the heart. On the other side, to balance it off I started two different types

of roses. I carefully blending the shading with my fingertips, wanting the shading

to look organic and true. It was harder to work on as he had no light in his eyes in this 

still shot that I chose to work off. It left me questioning. It left me rather haunted. 

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Amazing Four 

This was actually the first portrait of Phil I did this year. It's

just about finished laying on my desk, buried under a manuscript. 

This one, I really just needed to let it all out. Express everything that
I felt that day. I started out with a centre base of flowers. I love Japan

and so does he, so I figured it would be a focal point for the portrait. 

I wanted to start the year with something bright, hopeful and honest.

I wanted to build off a small moment that the camera captured once I 

slowed down the image stills. I found this and knew it was perfect. 

I used the flowers as a centre point to sketch Phil around, adding his

trademark whiskers and his favourite plaid. I wanted to capture the

artistry that so many people overlook in him. The seriousness -the love

and dedication to his craft. 

Japanese-English Translation.
百個のハートでも、君を愛しているというのは表現しつくせない。

A 100 hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.

Amazing Five

The final Phil.

Building off his love for film and creation of videos,

I wanted to show him with piece of his equipment, but also piece 

of the things that make up his life. That bring him so much happiness,

just like he brought me. They gave him a friend, and he gave me a friend.

He's so warm like the summer, so I decided to add freshly bloomed strawberries,

still on the vine to the roses and traditional style peonies I wanted to do in the piece.

It was a way for me to capture so much more emotion than I ever thought I could

do. 

I took the most time working with this one, working more on it with my

hands than the previous one. I wanted the light to hit just right. Capture

his delicate nature, but also the ravishing beauty that I see inside and out.

I wanted to re-create the warmth of the summer night that I first saw him;

I wanted everything to be balanced.I worked from the right to left on this

piece, rather than left to right as I often do on portraits. The hours ticked by

and it still remained unfinished. I added the most microscopic details, from the

minute lettering on his shirt to the actual design of his favourite old lens.

I looked like a coal miner when I finished it. Smudges everywhere on my hands,

arms and face. I wrapped him in a sea of flowers. Balancing out each type of flower

and the number of strawberries I added to it. And this one I actually finished.

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It's not just art you know?

And people don't seem to understand that.

It's love, devotion It's passion, it's everything good in my life.

It's me. Showing you just how much I care.

Showing you how much time I set aside in my day to focus on

a creation of you, that is for you.

Art like this goes way beyond just a pencil and some paper. 

They say that art is a reflection of the soul. This big, brilliant

and vivid works that I've been doing reflected pure happiness,

a happiness that I've not really felt in a long time. I was able

to sit and focus. I wanted to capture the light. I wanted to see

if I'd be able to hold this flame for real or would it just burn out.

During the process of these drawings, the flame did burn out.

I'd created something gorgeous, so many people adored them

but I didn't. I saw the sadness I was creating in the portraits

and in the frames. But no one ever saw that. 

I think this will be the last Dan the Doodlebug I do for a while.

Right now, I just don't have the heart to continue doing new pieces

of finishing old ones. If I find old art pieces that I've done then sure,

I'll try and post another one, but for the moment, this is the end,

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