Till Lindermann

New portrait! This one took me ages to comlete, more hours than I can count.

I usually post the wips of the picture as I progress but this was made as a gift to a very dear friend
of mine and I didn't want to ruin the surprise :)


Drawn on A3-drawing paper (297 x 420 mm) with graphite pencils.
For those of you that don't know Till Lindermann he is the lead singer in the band Rammstein.
If you don't know who Rammstein are, all I can tell you is that you're really missing out on epic music bro!

Since this one took so long and is drawn in 2-3 hour shifts I made many wips.
You can see quite clearly here how I build the picture from darkness to light.
Like with the hair I just paint over the whole area with diffrent shades of black and grey and then go over it with an eraser and bring forth individual hairs. There is even more texture in the skin and so on that I could have done but at my current skill-level this was the best I could manage.
Still hope you like it though!