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Published: 2005-05-07 03:37:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1073; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 187
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Description For my aunt, Velma Mae. She's getting the original She says she's going to frame it, too. It'll be funny looking back on this picture years from now, still in a frame while all my others get beat up in the sketchbooks.

I think I could still improve on its (messy) color some more, but I'm rather sick of working on this picture, and if I stare at it any longer with pencils in hand, I may go nuts and scribble all over it.

I did the middle of the picture last, ha. I couldn't work out those hands right.

Done in prisma markers and pencils, as usual---the background and the dress has some oil pastel in it, but it's such a new medium to me that I think I wound up getting more on my hands and arms than on the paper, hehe
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Comments: 23

mepol [2007-08-23 22:41:23 +0000 UTC]

Lovely! I really love the way you use the colours.

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LadyShelob [2005-05-13 01:19:17 +0000 UTC]

She's so pretty!

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GingyKitty [2005-05-11 06:13:27 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful... your Aunt is really lucky to have that pic. I love the colors on the wings and dress ^_^

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Thrakoleon [2005-05-10 07:10:38 +0000 UTC]

Pretty nice! It really deserves to be put in a frame.

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Kittensoft [2005-05-10 01:33:53 +0000 UTC]

So pretty!!

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purplerose [2005-05-08 02:41:12 +0000 UTC]

Very nice! I really like the coloring.

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kritterfox [2005-05-07 19:30:34 +0000 UTC]

In a few words: Totally amazing

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SadisticRabbit [2005-05-07 17:53:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, that's really beautiful! I love the colors and she's so cute!! hehe I got a frame for the pic you did for me!

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auto-erotic [2005-05-07 16:23:06 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!

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little-pineapple [2005-05-07 15:52:53 +0000 UTC]

For some reason, my eye is drawn to her knees. They look so real! lol

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weezil936 [2005-05-07 12:53:40 +0000 UTC]

how did you incorporate the oil pastel?

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spiralunwinding [2005-05-07 07:58:28 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely beautiful! Your coloring techniques are something to marvel at; I think I should study your methods a little closer, because I have both Prisma Markers and Pencils, and I still can't seem to acquire a very satisfactory outcome with them. A lot of work was placed into this, and it shows -- the colors are vibrant and smooth, her features lovely, and the background an elegant, balancing touch.

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claidis In reply to spiralunwinding [2005-05-12 05:45:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I'm flattered.

I'd been thinking, if there is a difference in the way your prisma coloring is coming out in relation to mine, it could be the inking issue we talked of on LJ. As any pure-inking picture I do comes out crappy as all hell, I tend to use as little ink as possible and just do the bare outlines with some line weighting, which leaves more room for the prismas to show their stuff. Not that your inking isn't just fabulous or anything, heh. *envy still*

But what do I know, most likely I'm talking out my rear -- try it though on the next picture you intend to color and see if it helps.

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spiralunwinding In reply to claidis [2005-05-12 19:36:27 +0000 UTC]

I was mainly referring to how smooth and flawless your coloring is. I have difficulty keeping things 'clean', I guess you should say, but things like that come with practice. A lot of the times my prisma pencils have too much debris that ends up smearing across the paper.

Usually, I never know how I'm going to end up coloring my images -- I really haven't used prismas in a long time, I hardly color anymore! But that's something t hat I'm going to have to remedy.

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claidis In reply to spiralunwinding [2005-05-17 07:40:02 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, the dreaded debris---I know that one I think. I'm not sure I know of any better fix than a good eraser; though, I don't think I have too much trouble with it smearing around the rest of the image, just on the white areas sometimes; even at that it doesn't seem to cause a lot of problems. Do you color the areas flat with marker first and shade with the pencils sometimes? That way seems to cause less mess for me than total hard-pressed coloring with the pencils.

I may have also griped about how slow of a worker I am. I'm usually constantly blowing off eraser dust and pencil debris as I work, leaving me a little winded by the time I take a break.

Also, if you've got steady hands and a sharp exact-o blade...you can scrape off unwanted marks that won't come up if it's good paper, blowing the debris away as you scrape, and then burnishing down the fixed area with a white eraser. It sounds brutal but, I watched it being done once and I was surprised. Of course...I haven't personally tried that method yet

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Dizziowl [2005-05-07 05:04:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow. It's beautiful. Those wings and that dress are stunning.

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0pticon [2005-05-07 04:54:55 +0000 UTC]

Truly amazing! Your aunt is very lucky

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NinjaWeasel [2005-05-07 04:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is lovely. I love all the little details, and those butterfly wings. Beautiful work.

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nadiaromanova [2005-05-07 04:13:41 +0000 UTC]

Very cute! I love it. It's so bright and pretty!

It deserves to be in a frame but I think that the other stuff I've seen by you deserves frames as well. (Of course I'm kind of obsessed with framing and matting pictures sicne I was a custom framer for a while). Someday I'd like to buy a picture from you to put on my wall. I just have to be less poor. x_o I don't even know if you sell your stuff.

~J.L. Anderson

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claidis In reply to nadiaromanova [2005-05-17 07:23:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

I would sell my stuff but, there's still so little of a good collection to me that I'd have trouble parting with anything. Or maybe I'm just selfish, I'm not sure, heh. I would like to sell prints as well but am not sure how I should go about doing that; deviant prints seem to be a little bit of a ripoff.

And if thou desirest an original, I'd be more than honored to a mail and/or online trade with you or---if you're not up to it, gift pic; I really do drool over your own beautiful artwork

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nadiaromanova In reply to claidis [2005-05-22 06:42:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh I'd love to do an art trade with you sometime soon! I love mail trades. =3 I'm super-busy right now but maybe this will drive me to finish my current commissions and stuff. You can message me anytime you like to tell me what you'd like for me to draw, though.

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StephRatte [2005-05-07 03:45:37 +0000 UTC]

SHe's very beautiful Excellent work

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DRoeck [2005-05-07 03:38:35 +0000 UTC]

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Jeezum Crow...

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