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Published: 2006-10-02 03:08:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1677; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 18
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ok, I just bought my first digital camera today and I'm pretty excited! I drew this last week, but I wasn't able to take a picture of it before now, so I'm pleased that I can share it. This is an ink drawing of Napoleon and Josephine strolling in a peaceful garden, which is based on a photo I took at Casa Loma in Toronto. If I had pictures from France, I would have used them, but I'm planning a research trip/fun vacation to Paris sometime this year, so hopefully I'll get lots of source material then.I drew this for drawing class. I'm working on a second drawing, an interior shot, and it's killing me, all the details!
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Great job! Thats all I can thin of to say, it just looks fantastic
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that... that's... that is awsome ! >< damn it's crazy beautiful 
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thank you very much!
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Your drawings are so beautiful; they achieve an enourmous amount of meaning with a wonderful composition and detail as demonstrated by this seemingly simple but very emotional piece. You are an excellent artist and I am fortunate to have stumbled upon this wonderful piece with its soft shading (thank you random deviant button!).
Keep up the excellent artwork.
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Thank you very much for the comment, I'll be sure to keep making artworks.
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This looks very nice. You definatly love putting in those historically dressed characters into your art.
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yes I do, I'm a bit of a history nerd ^_^
And thanks for the comment
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OO That is stunning! 
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Beautifull, the inking technique is really elegant here, like some sort of mix between ink and watercolors (we call this aguadas and not acuarelas when you do it with ink, but I don't know how they call it your country).
And the landscape is amazing.
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I don't think there's a word for it in English, it's just "ink drawing" no matter what technique you use. Thanks very much for the comment!
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he he he, thanks for the fave Laura!
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No problemo at all! I think that this is one of your best pieces yet!
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Woow, that's very detailed! o.o
The ink techinque looks just like watercolour, which I thought you had used for this picture, it never knew you could do something like this with just ink.
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Yep, you can use ink just like watercolour, nice thing about it is unlike watercolour, it's permanent when it dries!
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Ah I see. Something tells me that not any kind of ink works for that.
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I used a coloured acrylic ink for this, but it works with india ink too.
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Do those cost much? All my inking has been done with a cheap pen...
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It's not really that expensive, it's usually very reasonably priced if you buy a starter set of different pen nibs and a holder. And the ink depends on what brand you want, I usually just get whatever's on sale ^^ It'd be expensive to buy a full set of colours, so I'd just buy a couple bottles I think I could use.
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Ah I see! Thanks for the info!
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Thanks! It's a bit looser than I usually draw.
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this is fabulous. i will never know how you were able to do that with ink, but it looks absolutely stunning. really really awesome work!
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Thanks a lot. It's a combination of two techniques: drawing the ink on full-strength with a pen, and watering it down to apply with a brush.
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