James

James Hetfield of Metallica, as seen from the fanzone on one of last year shows in Moscow.

This pic waited more than half a year to be published. I started drawing it right after the two Metallica concerts I visited last year in April. Don't know what does seeing James kneeling coupla meters in front of you does to someone else, but in me it awakes irresistible desire to draw him So I did. That's exactly how I saw him that night, though I had to use someone else's photo from Msk concert since I couldn't take a photo myself. For some reason this pic was a difficult one for me, I abandoned and resumed it several times until I was more or less satisfied with it. But then I lost interest in DA for a long period, so it stayed unpublished (and still a bit unfinished). Well, it's finally here now.

I still not completely satisfied with it (as usual, actually). The background sucks. His tattoos were particularly annoying to draw, but the result is worth it, I think.

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Painter X, PSCS5. a few photos as a reference (none of which is mine), 15-18 hrs over several months