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Sumeria
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[2007-12-22 02:48:46 +0000 UTC]
"Sumeria"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 545; Deviations: 208; Watchers: 127
Watching: 11; Pageviews: 25617; Comments Made: 169; Friends: 11
# Interests
Tools of the Trade: Colored pencils, Ink, and rarely, guache# About me
Favourite style of art: Ink, pencils or watercolor# Comments
Comments: 16
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OMG!! your galery it amazing!!...I love the colors so much!!
great job!!
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Ah, thank you! I do haveΒ a fondness for color, tis true...
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Just found this page and wow you artwork is breathtaking why are you not more popular! its unfair I thinkΒ
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Thank you, that is very kind of you to say! But I suppose hypersaturated colorful drawings of elves cannot be _everyone's_ cup of tea.
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But objectively they are amazing with the level of detail and contrasting colours that just work. IMO Its overly common that paintings are under saturated simply because people are afraid but of colour and how difficult it can be to work with (examples with my own work) so oversaturation is hardly an issue especially when you pull it off so confidently and elegantly. Itβs the kind of art that takes your breath away wether itβs someoneβs cup of tea or not simply from a technical, artistic and aesthetic stand point. Sorry to write so much but it really is amazing work and it upsets me to see it hidden away 
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Oh, gosh, that is super kind, thank you for saying so! And there is no need to apologize for going on; like all right-thinking people, I am not offended by compliments. ^_^
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Your watercolor images are really nice. Shame you seem to have barely anyone following your gallery!
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There was a time when all my art was in a hyper-realistic style, and I leaned heavilly towards pencils, ink, and charcoals. Obviously, that time has passed. I just got so very bored with it.
Somehow, I don't really remember how, but I was young and I think CLAMP might have been partly at fault --specifically, I think scans of RG Veda were at fault-- I started doing heavily stylized anime-esque work. The fact that I don't really work very well without some sort of model for inspiration led me quickly into fanart.
Frequently I hear this genre derided as either plagarism, or, at best, utterly non-creative. And I cannot deny that I envy people who can just sit down and put pencil to paper with nothing but their mind to guide them. Howsoever that may be, I do not and likely never will see how what I do differs substantively from working from life. The portrait artist is drawing what he sees before him.
Today I work almost exclusively in a combination of colored pencils and ink. I do no digital manipulation at all, except to remove grevious errors (ink blots, or the like), resize the image, and, in the case of any picture largely orange, touch up the color. My scanner hates orange.
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