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Aetharius — Carrion Griffin II
Published: 2010-04-03 05:01:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 3755; Favourites: 100; Downloads: 0
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Okay, here's the colored version of the Carrion Griffin. I had some fun furthering my coloring methods. I seem to be doing a lot of digital coloring of ink drawings. It gives an interesting effect.I saved in-progress drafts, so I might make a step-by-step walkthrough/tutorial to share how I do this. If I decide to not be hideously lazy, that is.
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Beautiful piece...digital coloring over ink drawings definitely generates an awesome result. The lineart stands out very crisp and resembles comic-style art so it's awesome >:3 Really nice job on this guy!
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Nice, I really like the coloring of this as well as the detail of it, looks really cool!
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Yeah, storks (like the marabou) where heavy influences for this griffin.
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I love this picture. Your style is awesome; I love the swirly fur and the wings are gorgeous.
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Just Awesome!!!...
It was colored on digital or with traditional watercolor on canvas???
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Thanks! This was colored digitally. I'm considering making a colored version with traditional media too.
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AH! YOU COLOR BETTER THAT YOU DRAW! I can definatly see the heronic (?) influence in this! But it looks less vicious, almost like it could be in a movie about saving a kid and stuff.
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Thanks! It's actually based on a creepy-looking species of stork. Haha, I can imagine it now. It's the ugly griffin that everyone was afraid of and hunted, but then saves the kid hanging from a cliff after taking a stumble, and then they become friends and everyone learns to not judge based on looks.
Or it could be the bad, creepy type of griffin that lurks in the shadows until there's a battle, and then comes out to pick on the remains.
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Yeah...but I liked my idea better (JK)
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You think so? I'm having a hard time deciding, personally. The ink and the colored versions have very different feels to them, so it's almost hard to compare.
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Well, I like them both, but the colour and background just makes the whole picture look more 'complete', if you get what I mean.
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awesome!!! i love this take on a griffin. great color palette and the background is really interesting.
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Oh nice! I love the style the clouds were done in, looks like hard smudging. How long did this take you? And, a step-by-step would be interesting to see.
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Thanks! And yeah, the sky is a mix of soft brushes for the base, hard, low-flow brush for the highlights, and then hard smudged. Hmm, all in all, it probably took about two hours, but I had lots of distractions while doing it, so it's hard to say.
I'll try to put together a step by step thingy, and describe each step too. (I think I saved eight process images).
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I love this! It looks like a very defined statue because of its cold colors.
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I really like the look of the coloring, it blends well with the inking and the pallete makes the storkgriffin look more gruesome.
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Thanks! I've been getting some good results with this style of coloring over my ink drawings (still can't draw linework digitally to save my life ugh).
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