This drawing is made as an exercise: turning a low resolution picture into a realistic portrait. The reference picture I'm using here is from an MTV event that took place in 1991: MTV Rock 'n' Jock Basketball.

Little explanation about the background:
I first wanted to keep the drawing "simple" but once the portrait of Donnie was completed, I felt it looked a little empty. I wanted to include the MTV Rock 'n' Jock Basketball logo but didn't have enough space around Donnie's face to make it in a similar way as what I did for the NYPD logo in the portrait of Danny Reagan (see drawing "Donnie Wahlberg #2"). So, I chose to use a part of a picture of Donnie and his brother Mark Wahlberg, known as Marky Mark at that time, who also participated at that MTV event.

Portrait of Donnie Wahlberg, from New Kids On The Block

source: thanks to Miya
style: photo realistic
graphite on watercolor hot pressed paper
Time to draw: 50 hours

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