now this is totally awesome!!!!

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Foxes are always awesome. And thank you. :)

This looks awesome! Really great details on the hair and eyes and everywhere else. What is a scratchboard? And where could I get one. Really beautiful drawing hopefully I could one day draw like you.

Thank you! :)
I guess Wikipedia describes this medium best: Scraperboard or scratchboard refers to both a medium, and an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink.

Where to get one ... it depends where you live, really. If you're living in England or the USA, they seem to be pretty common in art stores. Sadly, they're really hard to get where I live, so I usually have to deal with whatever size and colour I get.

And I'm sure you will if you just keep practicing. :)

Aw thanks for the encouragement! And for the awesome new art information never knew about that style sounds and looks awesome! Hopefully tomorrow after school I'll check em out. Many thanks again. And hopefully your art becomes more awesome

You're welcome. :)
I hope you're going to find some scratch boards in your local art stores. Scratchboards are really fun to work on and it's not as hard as some people think it is. So, good luck and keep going! :)
And thank you, too.

Fantastic work on this

Thank you very much! :)

Ur welcome :3

Ow ... ! This is so impressive and beautiful. I first thought of an old photograph from an important person.
I really like that picture .

Thank you so much! :)
And I can see where that association comes from.

Thank you very much! ^__^

This piece is lovely.

It reminds me of probably my favorite metallic colored pencil on black paper I ever did. Looking it up it was five years ago now. c.c

Though from what I know of scratchboard I know that contrast I see here is true. I kinda cheat a little on mine with Photoshop since the shiny colored pencil I would use is not at all that brilliant unless held up to the light at a certain angle and distance.

I imagine scanning this overexposes the reflected light? Losing all the subtle "shading"?

It's so nice to see another on-black traditional artist. I hardly ever see such people. <3