Competitors Portraits

[artyfowljr]

I'd need some help with an ongoing project.
I'm not an excellent drawer, but when I have a good reason for trying I compensate my lack of ability with motivation.
I was planning on drawing some portraits (not really serious stuff, just the kind of thing you show to your friends and stick on the wall of your bedroom) of the All Stars - and perhaps some other competitors, if I manage to. However, I'd really need some nice quality, big pictures of them to look at. I know there's Google, but even using the Kanjis I haven't had any luck so far except for Nagano and Akiyama. Would you help me out if you can? I'll keep searching anyway, and keep updating the thread as my little project goes on.
Btw here are the scans of Nagano's and Akiyama's (I might do another one for each of them if I find a better picture-I might have found one for Nagano.)

[chackpop]

Wow those look very good!

I don't know that much about art but I see the resemblence between the potraits and the real people.

[YoDaUO]

Looks really nice! I am the worst artist ever. But ill try to help you find pictures.

Good luck on this!

EDIT -

I found a fairly decent size pic of Takeda and Shiratori

farm3.static.flickr.com/2237/2246801315_93c1685ba0.jpg?v=0

img.youtube.com/vi/C5nPqYmIoW0/0.jpg

[FAMAS]

You should email them to Nagano himself when you've finished them!

[Deleted]

Those look good, Arty! Much better than what I could do. If you want some up-close pictures you can go to webjam.com/sasukefans. Scroll down a little way and you'll see the pics. There's several pages of them.

[artyfowljr]

Wow thanks guys! I'm still struggling with school now, but hopefully in a couple of weeks it will be over and I'll have time to work on it.
Oh and yes I'm planning on getting some HQ scans of the pictures and sending them as fanmail if they come out good

[chackpop]

May 25, 2010 18:31:54 GMT -5 FAMAS said:

You should email them to Nagano himself when you've finished them!

If I were Nagano I would be creeped out to recieve an email from someone that was a picture of myself.

[artyfowljr]

Well I'd obviously write something on the picture explaining why I did it I know it would sound kinda like a stalker otherwise, lol. On the other side, he has seen a lot of posters fans did with pictures of him, so I guess it wouldn't be that awkward.

[arsenette]

May 26, 2010 12:21:00 GMT -5 chackpop said:

May 25, 2010 18:31:54 GMT -5 FAMAS said:

You should email them to Nagano himself when you've finished them!

If I were Nagano I would be creeped out to recieve an email from someone that was a picture of myself.

He gets them all the time He's just shocked he has fans..

[FAMAS]

Exactly, Nagano is the man!

[intelligentinfer]

Too bad.....my drawings suck.

[arsenette]

Actually there's a few pics you can take from here though they seem to have the best Yamada pics.
www.garagebug.jp/event/pipipiga/pipipiga.php?q_file=.%2Fimg%2Fbuginmiki2007%2FSANY0075.JPG

Awesome pic of Takeda:
livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/musclepark/imgs/4/6/4622bb11.JPG
From here: blog.livedoor.jp/musclepark/archives/51444843.html

Great Shingo pic:
livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/musclepark/imgs/b/e/be46e546.JPG
From here: blog.livedoor.jp/musclepark/archives/51267428.html

[artyfowljr]

First version of Takeda's:

Still a lot of work to do. Nose needs some adjustments and hair...well...I spent something like one hour cursing like crazy...how can possibly his hair grow that way!? It's almost impossible drawing it decently...sgrunt.
This one is much harder than the others because I have to look at different pictures, not having a ginormous one like for Nagano and Akiyama. Ah well, it's summer, I have time