Dimitri Belikov

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Finally drew smexy Dimitri Belikov

He's from the AMAZING novel "VAMPIRE ACADEMY" by Richelle Mead

in the drawing he's sorta half-strigoi and half-dhampir, I'm sure VA fans get the idea?

in the dhampir side is the Dimitri we all know and love and drool over and.. and.. he's the nice Dimitri!!

in the strigoi half, he sort of has some kind of smirk, with the fang and all the blood, because this is the "bad" vampire Dimitri. his eyes were supposed to be red and that's it, but I wanted to make it look more dramatic..

now I know I didn't draw the duster.. but it felt like too much.. let's just say he lost it like he did in "last sacrifice" okay?

and I sort of used Ben Barnes's hair as a reference : [link] [link] [link] [link]
I've probably spent 5 years drawing his hair!! (or what felt like 5 years)

Try to cover one side and see the other then vice versa

I had lots of ideas for Dimitri, like: Rose is standing in the middle and there are 2 Dimitris next to her, (one dhampir the other strigoi) and she's confused or something..
and another idea: dhampir-Dimitri standing in front of a mirror and seeing strigo-iDimitri..
and I had a lot of other ideas until I setteled on this one..

Drew him on an A4 smooth Strathmore drawing paper, with Faber-Castelle colored pencils..

Hope you like

and now here's the big question, Which side of Dimitri do you like best? (in the drawing or the book)