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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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Thrakoleon [2005-05-10 07:10:38 +0000 UTC]
Pretty nice! It really deserves to be put in a frame.
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purplerose [2005-05-08 02:41:12 +0000 UTC]
Very nice! I really like the coloring.
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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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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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0pticon [2005-05-07 04:54:55 +0000 UTC]
Truly amazing! Your aunt is very lucky
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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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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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DRoeck [2005-05-07 03:38:35 +0000 UTC]
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Jeezum Crow...
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