Markiplier Portrait

ART TALK: So I wanted to practice drawing a little lower contrast lighting. I feel like my lighting is always super high-contrast and dramatic, so I wanted to challenge myself. I went for a softer style of shading. And I'm not the best and drawing relatively realistic facial features especially in special lighting. I always mess up the noses. But I am really proud of this nose, haha. I also stayed away from starting with line art and outlining everything, in fact I hardly used any in the end, minus a few edge-defining ones.

And also this is Markiplier, if you didn't know xD He is one of THE best you tubers out there, and I love his videos. And he's a really amazing person that I really admire and respect. 
I am hoping he'll notice this and that maybe he'd like it, haha. I've been making fan art for him for a little while now, and my goal is to get noticed by my senpai!! haha

 

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