One of the best I've seen on this site in a while. I wouldn't be suprised to see this on the showcase board. ABSOLUTELY FRICKIN AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

I would love to see you do more of these. This looks like Alfred Hitchcock to me. XOD amazes...

Doesn't it say it's Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita? This exquisite, Xod. (psst, advanced is that way --->) :D

I just obsverved that it looked like AH.. I couldn't read the name. I didn't know that was who wrote Lolita, but I recognized the passage.

That's the Sting reference to that famous book by Nabokov too in Don't Stand So Close to Me. Xod's work is so educational, lol.

Xod.... you rock! You never cease to amaze me! This is just fabulous. :)

Edit: lolol @ the animation :) You make it very entertaining, XOD :P

o_o wow.
Great draw Xod. I love that hair on the top of his head. :)

Thanks Gigge..I knew I recognized it from someplace..

WOW! This is absolutely amazing! Great work Xod!

this is awesome XOD! I'm going to watch the animation now, I don't know how any does this on that aplet. what tallent!!

XOD treats us to one of his realism pictures from time to time to keep us humble...

This is AWESOME! too bad it is not a self portrait:(
Maybe one day huh?

He's done one a bit back... not on 2draw though.

I can only wonder why such a masterpiece is on the intermediate board. The wrinkles in the skin are are simply amazing; it looks so life-like, so photo-realistic, yet it also manages to look painted.

this was done in one sitting??
I don't think i've done ANYTHING for 8 hours straight
except maybe breathe, and i take a break even from that every couple of hours
well done oh great and masterful XOD

he might have gotten up to eat a sandwich, you never know

This is totally cool, great portrait. Xod certainly does rock. Old people are fun to draw.

THIS is the real reason I stick around here.... every once in a while, there is an absolutely *everybody hit the floor* piece of art done that make all those days in between worthwhile. Thanks, Xod. Your talent goes beyond words.

how supurb...all the right tones in the right places..no messy spots >.< its just excellence. do one in color now!
i love how his hand is so chubby :D

Let me tell you a funny but serious mistake I did with this drawing:
The reference picture is http://www.red-literaria.com/Autor_VladimirNabokov.JPG
If you notice I have made a mistake with the proportions of the face.
But if you open a window my with my drawing on the left half of the screen
and then open a window of the photo on the right half of the screen, side by side
and then adjust your seat slightly to the left of the screen and look at it,
you can see that my drawing and the photo look more like the same.
|XOD|

!!!!
how... did...you...do that?

haha

XOD knows all Marcello...muahahahha

for those of you that didn't understand what xod meant...

xodiak, you are a fucking god. holy crap, man..... This is beautiful realism! :O I am in shock... dayuhm... I aspire to draw at your level!! *bows to xod...*

Jeeeeezzzzzzuz Xod! In PaintBBS? What the hell....how can ya..and then...but it's just so..I don't....and then ya got yer....

How in the name of F*ck and all that is unholy did you manage to do that????
that is incredible!!!!
i just thought it was an incredibly good drawing....but now.....DAMN!
i think xod may actually BE otherworldly

Well... since everything I thought of saying was already taken... I'll just sit here and smile. :)

it's stunning...

That is great! Xod, you are so awesome at realism! The wrinkles in on the forehead are great. ;D

this is awsome!!!! your realism is so stunning and so nearly perfect it is remarkable, these kind of pieces are so inspiring you are the best!!

I salute ya, man. are you also this good with real paint? I also wonder if you will answer

I will answer to you Mr. Danno... unfortunately I am not good with real paint. Some obvious disandvantages I would probably encounter when drawing with paint would be the messiness of real life material, not having an "undo" button, not being able to just "cut and move" parts around when the proportions or placement of parts would be off or wrong. I suppose I would have plenty other advantages, like not staring at a computer screen for hours, having a large canvas, not working with pixels but with real colours (real life is certainly of higher resolution, higher colour quality and higher detail) and of course having a real 3 dimensional object which you can study in depth while drawing, instead of a flat, low quality and low resolution scanned jpg photo.
However, my greatest disadvantage would be that I have never practiced. >;)
|XOD|

for those with 3d glasses :D
http://nfsfactory.gamigo.de/websites/bv-design/ben/privat/xod.jpg

You're absolutely amazing, Xod. Don't know how you do it, but I'm certainly glad you do. :)

Wow!!!! Great work you did here :)

rock on xodiak, rock on rock ronr ron rock!

XOD is GOD

Amazing Xod... just amazing.

Sometimes when I log on here I just randomly click on something from the Showcase to perhaps view something I'd missed, sometimes to reacquaint myself with a painting I previously admired, and sometimes just to see what comments were added in the days after the Showcase placement. Today I ended up on this one and I noticed that you say, Xod, that you have never painted in real medium and that you are afraid there are too many disadvantages. If you are talented artistically, you will carry that talent with you regardless of the tool you choose to express yourself. Of course there's a learning curve with a new tool, but your talent will emerge eventually with any of them.

It is true that there are many amazing useful "magic" tools in a computer applet... but most of the applets are just trying to re-create what you would experience if you were using real mediums. Putting something in the wrong place and having to move it, for example... you wouldn't do that so easily on canvas... you would learn to be more careful, and then afterwards follow the rule I heard many times... never change your composition once you are past the sketch and into the painting. If you decided to break that rule, (which I have many times) you just paint over it. Layers: oil painting is done by the same method, actually.. it stays pliable and blendable for hours and sometimes even a couple of days. When you are ready for the "next layer" you let it rest until the paint is dry, and paint the next layer over it. I could go on and on, but this comment is already too lengthy. I just find it extremely sad when I see that anyone (especially someone with the magnitude of talent you harbor) starts and ends with computer art. You possess this talent that will surface regardless of the medium you choose, and there really is no feeling in art like holding a brush in your hand and making a real canvas come to life. Try it, please? :)

That's anawesome one! Why is it rated extreme?

Terrific draw any way you look at it.

oh my god its XOD
i thought you were dead...

this is fabulously intriguing

and sexy.
in a weird way

he looks like my 7th grade Science teacher.. "Sparky" .. at least that's what we called him

it's been 2 years since someone has commented on this? It's drawn on a canvas we couldn't possibly have now, with tools that are no longer available. or so it seems.....
..it's that amazing and that well done. I'm in awe as I stare at it, trying to remember it's a drawing......

and its still amazing all these years later