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Finally was able to get time to finish this for the con! My "big piece", even though it's only 9"x12". I like working small, to my disadvantage... XD
99% watercolor, with a tad of white acrylic ink for the highlights.
See you guys at FC, I will have the recent uploads in the art show, with a bunch of LE jumbo prints, and I am sitting at table 97 in the dealer's den!
99% watercolor, with a tad of white acrylic ink for the highlights.
See you guys at FC, I will have the recent uploads in the art show, with a bunch of LE jumbo prints, and I am sitting at table 97 in the dealer's den!
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 950 x 676px
File Size 265 kB
For the very blended dark parts, like the top of the image, you first have to block off the areas that you want to keep paint away from with frisket. Then you peel that off and paint the rest. I only used that for the dark blue top though, the rest is freehand. The problem with using frisket is that it's stinky, gross and time consuming to have dry and peel off (and it also takes off a lot of the pencil lines). It's pretty controllable in general with good hand coordination and with adequate time to dry (depending on how you want colors to blend, sometimes it's better if they're wet).
Honestly, the part I dislike the most is not the control issue (of course there's much better control with dry media) but rather the color mixing. I haaate trying to mix colors, then running out of them and then trying to get the same color again by mixing.. :P
Honestly, the part I dislike the most is not the control issue (of course there's much better control with dry media) but rather the color mixing. I haaate trying to mix colors, then running out of them and then trying to get the same color again by mixing.. :P
Beautiful work! I love the drapery, and the shapeliness of her hips (and her back dimples ^.^!) The soft colors and the texture of the background are really nice.
I think my favorite part is actually on the right where the ribbons that wrap around her ankle extend off screen - the shadows below the ribbons on the fabric folds - that creates a really good sense of dimension and 3d space.
Look forward to seeing you soon! =D!
I think my favorite part is actually on the right where the ribbons that wrap around her ankle extend off screen - the shadows below the ribbons on the fabric folds - that creates a really good sense of dimension and 3d space.
Look forward to seeing you soon! =D!
They are rotated to match the position but they seem to completely lack the perspective distortion. One eye directed almost straight "at the camera" (the eyesocket, not the eyeball), the other definitely directed down, possibly partially hidden behind the muzzle. Yet they are almost the same size and shape, almost cut&pase style. Being clearly outlined, they are very visible in this.
I sort of see what you mean, but I think the problem is the unevenly separated hairline and the one eyebrow raised more than the other that creates the illusion, I think the eyes are properly proportioned considering they're not that far away from each other perspective-wise (on the contrary, I tend to have a problem of making the far eye TOO small, so I am consciously trying to correct that mistake). So I agree that something seems a tad off, but I think it's other factors rather than the eyes themselves.
it's not the distance (negligible here) but the angle. Eyes aren't flat, and viewed from different angles they change the way they look a lot. Here it looks like they both are seen directly head-on from the front. This would be reasonable with human face where the eyes are practically in one plane, directed straight ahead. Animals tend to have eyes set more or less to the sides of the head (less stereoscopy, wider angle). So if the head is turned, one eye may face the image directly and the other will be way to the side - rotated by "depth". (Of course this being a carnivore the effect is not nearly as obvious as it would be in case of a herbivore. Imagine drawing a horse with its head at this precise angle. How would its eyes look?
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