“Come before the winter’s gale
before the frost and snow
take what I will give you
Accept my sacrifice”
Amorphis – Sacrifice
Though it might sometimes appear as if Nightwish are the only Finnish band that I listen to, that’s not true. There’s a variety of great bands from Finland that I highly enjoy – and Amorphis is one of them. Their melodic and melancholic music just got better and better through the years and the newly released “Queen of Time” certainly didn’t change my mind on that. On the contrary, it made me want to draw Tomi Joutsen, the singer of Amorphis. I ended up choosing a photo from one of their concerts as a reference as it just seemed to have the right vibe to it. Tomi’s face and hair were done quickly, what took me the longest to draw were his tattoos and the logo on his shirt. All in all, it was a quick portrait, though. A few weeks after finishing it, I decided that the portrait could use some background and so I added a dark shade of grey and black to complete the picture.
Paper size: A4
Materials: Faber Castell blacklead pencils
Time: approx. 8 hours
Reference photo used for the drawing was taken by: Lina Glasir
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