its perfect, Rick

Hi Kati...thanks a Bunch!!!

Beautiful drawing!!!!!!

Hey Albertinez...thanks so much!!!

Looks great Rick! Remember when I drawed davey Jones and Darth Vader together, I was over it by the first vent on vader and the first tentacle on davey! UGH! (Drawings Deviant art sight but the pic ain't that great because it's a big drawing over 120cm in width) What are doing next? Or ' I should say 'who' are doing next?!

TOO funny Sal!!! "first vent on Vader" Wheeeew!!! I think I was done with this before I started Matt, cuz the site took me 4 hours, and that is really what attracted me to the challenge? I found an awesome photo of Chef Gordon Ramsey...HIGH contrast and lots or tonal range!!! I may start it tonight, but it's LOST season finale (3 hours total with review epi) so we shall see? It ALL started on a plane from Sidney!!!

GORDON F@%KING RAMSAY! Cool! I love him! Good face to draw too! all those wrinkles and smile lines, or should I say scowl lines! Loved LOST once also, but then station kept putting it on later and later, and then they'd take it off for three weeks, put on again take it off again, I ended up losing track a bit, but I've just started to get into it again in the last month. Whose your Fav character?! Also...It's Sydney with a Y. Im not being picky or anything, Just wanted to let you know. HA! TTYL Sal

I was into Kitchen Nightmares for a couple years, but not so much now. Gordo is a great one to draw, especially the pic I found of him, and there is only a cartoon of him on here now. So I like to think of not only good stars, but ones that not too many people here have done. I might make some people mad by saying this, but if I see just ONE more fkn drawing of that transvestite Bill Kaulitz or what ever the fk his name is, I'm going to &#$^%#$ scream!!!! I will NOT comment on those, but try to be encouraging to the new people, and those who faithfully comment on my stuff. LOST was UNREAL!!! John Locke has been my "constant" but have liked the core people of course. TTYL

Oh God! John Locke is my FAV too! Gotta love John boy. I wouldn't want to leave the island either - but I bet he just wishes some chick would give him a bit of a root! Love his "I'm doing what I f@#king want" attitude. Totally agree about the Bill whoever, who the hell is he?! I have know idea who this twit is? am I that behind with the times?! Also back to lLost for a sec, I love Ben, he's a nutter too! I've started writing a book and he was the inspiration behind the main character.

Oh yeah, Ben is on the top 5 favs on that show. You know you can watch all 5 seasons online? abc.com? Book? you write too? Sound like my old neighbor. She did it all. Had 9 kids (I think her uterus finally fell out?) She home schooled the all, made all their clothes, etc. I think she even made friggin soap?

Uterus feel out...heehee! I draw the line at making soap...sewing...and the whole home schooling thing - What is with people wanting to home school their kids - That would be like another 6 hours af drawing time gone every day! UGH! - Ishould say housework time gone - I wrote a script about the Bermuda Traingle, and now I'm writing a novel - a thriller.

lol...I guess that's why they call you super sal? Cool about the book. I find that artists are usually just geniuses that just need a hobby?!?!? Yes, I love my kids to death, but I cud never homes school. In fact, I'm getting tired of having them around. Especially now they they attend college and commute from home. Wifey got laid off her job 2 weeks ago, after 10 years, now she's home doing real estate with me, oh boy!!! After 25 yrs of marriage, all I want now is to share my bed AND desk with her?!? As it is, I think I told you I have 3 grown women in my house, ALL like nagging wives! I don't get away with CHIT!!! and talk about HELL week!!! I think they all in synchronicity or something? I ain't seen this much blood since Rocky III

Hell yeah - I am superSal! An your right about the IQ thingy, I did a IQ test on the net, actually I did several, cause I didn't believe the results of the first, , Mine's 137, Einstein was 157. Not bad hey, shocked the hell out of me! Stuff sharing the desk too, she doesn't touch your pencils does she?!!!! Just kidding! I know what it's like to work woth your spouse, hubby and I did for two years. we started 7 weeks before our first was born, and he came to work with us! CRAP! It was maddness but we had no choice! Also...yes, women who live together are known to have synchronised cycles. My mum and twin sister always had theirs together, but I didn't - I was never insync with them - bugger that! They're a bunch of nut cases. 25 years married - you know you would have got less for murder right! Kidding again! Congrats not many stay together that long - we just had our 9th a couple of days ago.

I'm sure almost everyone here has a high IQ. I was 142 range in more than one test. My folks told me after I was grown too, that they had me tested at a young age, but didn't want to tell me? Twin huh? I told you I have twins, and I'm a Gemini (twin) although I do NOT put faith in that chit, there is something going on? SO God did something with the stars! LMAO on getting less time!!! I'm taking a 10 min brk from Gordo. I'm writing out the steps and taking lots of step pics. Will send u via email. Speaking of, I will reply tomorrow. Back to drawing ha!!

Your Gemini! My husbands gemini too! I'm a scorpio. And get this, My dad's a real estate agent with twin girls and a boy, but he's a asshole and he's 60. So your a southern boy!

Yeah, at heart anyway, lol. Been a "Yankee" all my life as far as location goes. I did get your email of the art contest. Crazy good!!! Did you draw all those dog hairs separately?!?!? and maybe I missed something, but those 2 that previously won - SUCK!!! WTF is that?!?!? Anyone here could smoke those drawings?!?!? I decided to do a tutorial of sorts and 14 steps I'm doing for Gordon Ramsey. Emailed out the first 7 steps today. You should have it in your inbox. Gotta work...cya

Yeah, I did draw all those bastard dog hairs! Man what painful task. That's whay it's taking me so long. It's just an effort to ant to draw it now, the hair is that painful to draw. I must have put pencil to the board about a gazillion times! Share the same thought about the last winners with you too! It's quiet frustrating. I hope I've got the idea right enough to just get hung up. About 800 entries an only 40 or so finalists get picked. And just incase you didn't get my email, Ramsay looks awesome too! Seeya!

(email) Winter in 2 weeks? Weekend over? Do you live on this Planet? Oh, I forgot, you are from the Planet of BeatHeart? I know u are in the Outback, but winter? We just got done, heading into summer here? Like Vedar's first Vent, I wuda put it away, and not come back? Talk about heart goes boom!?!? Good luck in the contest and Thx on the Ramsay!!

Yep, in the land of OZ we are about to dive into winter. CRAP! I hate the cold! And I don't live in the outback, I live in the city, I travel to the country just about everyweekend though to go waterskiing. But you wouldn't be the first person to think I'm from another planet! Happens alot to me! ...got another message form you know who! Far out! For what it's worth too, My heart did NOT make beat over it!!

How can that be? Aren't the seasons the same everywhere on earth? I know Alaska is F'd up, but...? Oh really? Mr. Heartbeat? "I want to travel to the bottom of your sea"? LMAO!!! Oh man!!!

I almost wet myself! !! DERRR! they aren't the same all over, just like when it's your night it's my day, when it's your summer it's my winter. "Alaska's f'd up" heehee! "bottom of my sea!" Now thats f'd up! Aniren said the poems have been to one other aswell! That cheating BSTD! HA! I'm still having quiet giggles about the CIA email!

I cud write a pretty funny poem right now, but we should start a new thread on an old drawing. Someone's gonna tell us to get a room?!?

I'd suggest to chat room that sits at the bottom of my screen, but I have know idea how to use it! ANd it's not like we wrote that crap anyway. We're just having a bit of fun with it! What else can you do with it?! Print it out and treasure it forever?! UGH!!! Also, back to the serious stuff, when you go to do this drawing for your Dad, print it out in a couple of contrasts, lighten it and darken it, this way you'll see more and you'll know what you can exaggerate on to get drawing just right and you'll be able to drag more detail out of it. See how you go with that. speak soon

yeah, dunno how to use it either. U gotta know when someone is on? I sent this site a few suggestions. 1) Allow us to organize our gallery? I loaded some old ones last. 2) Allow us to edit post with changes? 3) Allow us to remove a comment ourselves (HA) 4) Prohibit Bill Kaulitz drawings!!! Way ahead of your idea. I sit in front of my laptop or desktop and alter the contrast in some photo software, ha! Send u those Gene pics now. TTYL

Oh, forgot to tell you...my dad currently wants me to draw their friend's 3 grown children, one of which died of a drug over-dose. There's some fun f#$%ing drawing I'll tell you!!?!? It's the last pic the parents have of their 3 kids together, and it's like a 10 year old photo. Oh, and then there's the girl, of another of their friends they want me to draw, who killed herself because her dad was too tough on her!!! Oh JOY!!! My hope is that someone will pay me $$$ to draw the 10 hottest women on earth?!?

Yead I've drawn a tonne of dead people. It's not that fun. Family either want you to draw someone that's died or someones baby! Actually I've drawn a tonne of both, niether can I say are that fun. I prefer good looking older men - Give me Jon voight and Sean Connery any day f the week!

blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/Gordo~05.jpg I'm doing a cropped version of this pic of Gordo. Gonna be fun! Lots of highlights and wrinkles. Next, someone will want me to draw a dead baby or something?

Great Pic! hell of a lot better than a deceased baby! Are you going to show us in stages?

Yes I think I will take stage pics, for my blog anyway. I have a lot of responses from my friends when I email out my new ones with step pics. On the other thread, I'd be retired now if I had bought Playtex stock 20 yrs ago!!!

SORRY - I had to look up playtex. Underwear! Get ya now! HA! I'm never the frilly undies chick - I 'm a Bonds girl, well I was. They're Aussie undies. Well they were up until a month ago - Now we have virtually no home grown undies co. in our country, I guess I will just have to go starkers under everything!

No, I meant tampons!!! That and toilet paper, holy hell!!! Ya'll have some funny words over there by you. HA! Actually, I was born in Texas (south) but lived in Chicago since I was 8, so no more southern drawl accent, but ALL my relatives are from the south. They all talk funny, like Hey Riiiik, what up maaaan? Ya'll guna come own dayown for Chisssmass??? Gotta love it!!!

Your tapmons are called PLAYTEX - what parts the bit you play with?! HA! Sorry. Here we call tampons - tampons. Just kidding! I get ya, it's the brand name. When I googled it it come up with a Bra co. Do you get my email I sent you?

Very good portrait JR!! Bravo!!

Hi Jeanette! Thanks very much!!!

Perfect!

Thanks Marino!!!

Thanks a lot Lise!!!

Cool!... But, hey! Turn this gun to other side!...

Thanks but not sure what you mean?

Hey, Rick, I mean, 'turn this gun to ANother direction', not your direction, is that your not sure?... Forgive me, pal, I told you my English is liable to fail at anytime!...

oooohhhh, I get it now!!! Hind-sight is 20/20 (go look THAT one up in your lil dictionary!) I now wish I didn't even bother drawing this one. Better to have drawn a different one of Matt? Live and Learn tho, huh?

It's not 'my lil dictionary''s fault, neither your Matt Damon photo you chose, mané... ...was that damned literal translation we've been talking about, that induced me to make a mistake. 'Other side', in Portuguese, means ANother direction in general, not 180°...

lmao Buhahahaha!!! Waht if I miexd ecah wrod aronud os taht tehy wree all miexd up?

Correct form: ?pu dexim lla erew yeht taht os dnuora drow hcae dexim I fi tahW !!!ahahahahuB oamI

LMAO!!! Man u are good!!! English prob your 4th language or something, and it took me a second to figure out you are spelling drawkcab!!! I was simply moving the interior of the words around. As long as you have the first and last letters of a word write, it is prvoen taht you can raed tehm?!?!?

'!axaxer ,árbid ebas mun ,idápmuc ,éoC' ,eseugutroP laiuqoloC Now tell me what mean 'IMAO' and 'LMAO', I don't speak Internetish.

LMAO means = Laughing My Ass Off

Hey, pal, let's stop this 'idle talk' and go see my Demi Moore...

...liable to a failure (better, you see?...).

I am breathless:

Thank you Shahin!! I learned something from this one. Which is do NOT make the focus of a drawing something besides the person. The gun sight became my focus and it took away from Matt Damon. Plus, do not work from a poor quality photos!?!??

You are absolutely right!

Hey Rick!!! great portrait!!!

Hi Anna...thanks a always!!!

your`re welcome!!

Really beautiful !!!

Hey Coise...thanks a LOT!!!

magnifique portrait qui m'avait échappé!

Thank you Bea!!! As always!!!

Excellent work!

Hi Suanin...thanks so much!!!

Hi Claudine...thanks a BUNCH!!!

Hi Sofya...thank you very much!!!

that is so freaking good . You got his look . The gun thing is perfect . Matt is perfect . His expression is also very good . That is so realistic like always . Bravo , JRFortson

and checked up your son's music - very good stuff

Thanks a lot! I didn't recognize your new avatar, ha! I think I focused too much on his gun scope, and not enough on him. I did Matt last, and was tired of this drawing by that time Yes, my son is good, yes? www.myspace.com/andrewbelle

i don't agree with you , i think matt is very good and yes your son is good

well thanks! All I'm saying is I know I could have done much better. ALL artists will find fault in their own work?

yeah

waoo! rick this portrait is beautiful matt look is terrible we feel the determination in his eyes

lol thanks bro!!!

Thanks a LOT!!!

The best portrait of Matt Damon i've ever seen . really , it's a masterpiece . gorgeous

thanks SO much! Glad u like it!!!

Oh I just saw your Matt Damon over, It's a very beautiful drawing I love the gun scope !

lol...thanks, but unfortunately it's one of those you find yourself not 100% happy with? I KNOW it's because I drew Matt last, and the focus was on the gun scope. I learned from that one!?!? In the middle of Chef Gordon Ramsey now, ha! Post tomorrow? Take care Audrey!!

Perfect work!!!

hi Bashya! Thanks Sooooo much!!!

Wow...wow...wow!!!...be cool Matt!!!...I'm not an enemy!!! ...Very well done,Rick!

hey thanks a lot! Good movies!!

so réaliste brotha good drawing!!!!!!!!

hey Rikou!!! Thanks a lot!! Hey, send me a message through this site, and I will reply back and send you the Tutorial I'm doing now of Chef Gordon Ramsey? If ya want?

ok brotha i see it

GREAT!!!!!!

Hi Umberto...thanks a LOT!!!

ton of great art portrait again Rick I love it, it is beautiful, and your work always charm me as much, it's a real pleasure for my eyes, continues to move me with your beautiful masterpiece j 've done shooting, I participated in a contest and I finished 2nd, super talented daughter, I know very well defend myself, very very good job, congratulations ... I'm sending you kisses miles tender my friend Rick

Hey AM!! How u been? You've probably read that I don't like this one. I spent too much time on the gun scope and not enough on Matt, ha! You are on my art mailer, so you should have gotten the Tutorial I'm doing on Gordon Ramsey. Sent out steps 1-7 today and will finish it by this weekend. Tell me what you think my good friend Anne-Marie?

I'm very fine Rick thanks, I was on a trip to the sun .... I received your mail in 7 steps, it is very well done, very well done, as you await your drawing, a thousand tender kisses my friend Rick

Trip to the SUN!?!?!?

many pleasures during my trip to the sun

OMG, this is perfect! I am impressed

hi Michalina...thank you SO much!!!

wow!!!! GREAT!!

hey Chantal...thx sweets!!!

wow!! it´s amazing!!

Hi Claudia...THANKS a lot!!!

woohoo! great Rick! that's all the scope you can get!! nicely done

yeah but I put too much focus on the scope first, then I didnt really care about matt, lol. Thanks tho!!! If I did it again, I would draw Matt on a smaller scale and first, then the scope? Live and learn, yes?

it kinda made me think - what if the scope was up and over and the eye was IN it???

Then the eye would be bigger in the glass? You must be up drawing too? I'm going to send you this step drawing I'm doing now. Tell me what you think?

Wowww !!! always incredible ... that's really original as a portrait !I love the eyes of your figures... deep eyes ... my congratulations, guy !

Hey Cindy...thanks!!! I love eyes, and I realized early on I need to learn how to draw them

Hi and THANKS a lot!!!

so perfect...

Hi Taniou...thank you so much!!!

Pencil buddy! No more head and shoulders??? Looks really good! So you started with the gun... I always start with the eyes so if they're ok it inspires me to go on

What? U skipped my Cleese?? Yes u are right. Classic blunder on my part here. I was DONE after I spent 4 hours on the scope! HA!!

I didn't skipp your Cleese! I alreaddy honored you with my comment some days ago LOL!!! I think you need a secretary???

Oh...it's just u commented on Selleck, then Damon? ha!!

i can't keep up anymore!!!! you draw too fast and then you give art classes too! maybe i should move to Chicago?

Not TOO fast? One every other day or so. Sometimes 1 a day if I have time at night hehe

it seems like very fast to me! OH, i met SAL! BoUnCe bOuNcE!!! Where is that cute white cat from Holland doing the summersaults now!? she is a real sweety! Great ARTIST! i had a look on her website! i am blown away... You guys are all so good!

yes good personality and she shares my sense of humor? I think most artists do? Should finish Leslie Nielsen today/tonight? LOTS of work to do though...cya soon!!

check you, (thats how the South Africans say it.... ) maybe i'll get to do some drawing too tonight! Cheers....

Magnifique!!!!!!! Portrait que je n'avais pas vu.....

Thanks a bunch!!!

Thanks! Not hapy with this one. Drew the gun scope first, and Matt suffered

I love your gallery, it's amazing, you make a very really good job

thanks Sophie!!!

It's very very beautiful

Really? I messed his face after drawing the scope