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Academy Award-winning actor Nicholas Cage has joined the cast for the Snowden film adaption. Cage will play “a former U.S. Intelligence Official.”

Two-time Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt will tackle the titular role of whistleblower Edward Snowden (pictured, via). Filmmaker Oliver Stone wrote a screenplay based on two books, Anatoly Kucherena’s Time of the Octopus and Luke Harding’s The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man.

Here’s more from Variety:”Snowden was charged in 2013 by the U.S. Department of Justice with two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property and his passport was revoked a week later by the U.S. Department of State. He was granted temporary asylum by Russia last year. Open Road Films will release the film in the U.S. on December 25.” To learn more about Snowden, check out his TED Talk.

2.5 x 3.5
4B Graphite on illustration board
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I decided to stick with graphite, but try a darker lead. This was done with a 4B.
I'm into just using one lead on these. I could use a full range of values in the graphite and get a much more rendered look, but I like trying to make it work with just one.
4B is really dark, so no light values were really possible. Even using the lightest possible pressure you still get a dark value. But that's OK. I like this.

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2.5 x 3.5
Faber Castel HB graphite pencil on illustration board


I haven't used just plain graphite in ages. I bought this new set of pencils a couple of weeks ago, and thought I'd better check them out!
I purposely used just the HB on this, so it didn't get really really dark anywhere; it just stayed in the mid-range of values. Maybe I'll do one more darker one, next time.

I really enjoyed using the graphite. I only sharpened the pencil once! It kept such a nice point, and went on so smooth, it was just lovely. And I love grey, so all in all this one was very fun to do.

I'm not sure that the HB alone would be a good substitute for black colored pencil, or how much warmer it is, but still, its an alternative. And a nice one I think.

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Dressed in nothing but a hairy blanket.
Pencil and watercolour 18cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

Portrait of a determinist.
Pencil 17cm x 12cm. Click to enlarge.

A couple of Golems I saw today.
Gel pens, pencil, crayon. Both 12cm x 16cm. Click to enlarge.

An Etruscan big shot depicted on a carved sarcophagus from 200BC. Drawn at the Royal Academy exhibition in London.
Pencil 12cm x 16cm. Click to enlarge.

Study for a kinetic sculpture.
Pencil 20cm x 26cm. Click to enlarge.

Graphite and ink 21cm x 30cm. Click to enlarge.

After lunch up North.
0.9 mechanical pencil. 17cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Pencil drawing 20.5cm x 10.5cm.Click to enlarge.

Watercolour, chalk and graphite. 28cm x 37cm. Click to enlarge.

"Well I couldn't help it, I was dreaming I was awake. And then I woke up and found myself asleep." - Stan
Graphite and watercolour 24cm x 31cm. Click to enlarge.

Watch out for the Love Zombies.
Pen, ink and graphite with watercolour on Moleskine coated paper 21cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

Drawn in the Assyrian Room of the British Museum. It's Ashurnasirpal II's gigantic lion from the entrance to the Ishtar Temple.
Water soluble pencil 20cm x 29cm. Click to enlarge.