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Published: 2012-01-27 01:56:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 664; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 90
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKIsn't it funny....this paper feathers rather badly....but it doesn't BLEED.
I still like sheep...Aw, aren't Mareep so cute and cuddly and-!
*gets electrocuted*
Ffffffffffffffffffffff-!
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Aww, great work. Fantastic coloring, and the Mareep looks authentic.
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God I love the coloring on this FFFFFFFFFFFF-
I wish I could color!!
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You color fine now!
But thank you. The only complaint I had was that the wool didn't blend as much as I wanted it to.
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GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL! 8D
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YOU TEACH ME AND I TEACH YOU!
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How does it look when it electorcutes someone?
Are them markers? If so, do you add the second layer (and which one is it - the shade or the solid color)?
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It looks....HORRIBLE! DX<
As for the markers, I did it with a solid color and then added a second layer. Its something I've been improving on since I do a lot more blending now to prevent a cell, hardened look on the edges of the shadow. Unfortunitly, I was working on this a few months ago so the colors are kind of old. I would have done more shading on the wool but since those areas were already colored in, I didn't want to cause any staining on the old layers, especially since I was using fresh, unopened markers as opposed to the old colors which were done using older markers. I tried to but the result was this odd looking smudge that only disappeared when I redid some of the areas with darker colors. @3@
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Try the other way - make the shade, wait for it to dry and then draw the solid with long strokes, that way damping the shade layer and blending it with the solid color, but don't let the edge of white-colored to dry (the reason of making long strokes) 
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I actually did that with the tail orb since I had a smaller area to cover and if I did make mistakes I could have easily corrected them. I laid the lightest shade on first though just to get a damp area and some color on and then laid a darker shade of orange before going on with the lighter shades. When those were blended the way I liked, I added one more shade layer for orange and actually went back with the lightest orange shade to blend but also add just a tiny bit of color rather than just going on with a blender.
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Well, that's also a good thing, this probably makes the same thing - you draw the bases, then merge them so they blend together, using a color that will be used in the highlight part. I wish I had more hues of the same colors
Is the blender a good thing or it can mess everything up? I haven't had one
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The blender is an EXCELLENT tool and something I couldn't live without! As far as markers go, along with your basic primary colors, the blender is the best thing you can have. The thing to remember though is that as well as blending colors, it does lighten them a bit so I find it best to do the base layer, add the shade, blend, and then add the base color again to once again enhance the color and further blend the shades together. It took me a while to get it but I found the best way to use the blender (for me at least) is to make sure that the shades look natural and soft rather than to give them that cell-shaded, hard look. This makes the blending easier and when it spreads, it looks better.
One thing to watch out for of course is bleeding which can happen when you apply too much blender (or any color) ink to certain types of paper. The paper I worked on for this actually blended better than the paper I have that was specifically made for markers (see the Teacup Piggy picture I uploaded before this. There is evidence of bleeding EVERYWHERE). Bleeding can be a headache, especially when it goes off into areas where it muddles the colors but this can be fixed with Photoshop and Sai if you feel like touching up. If you're doing basic no background works and bleeding still happens but around the edges, all you have to do is use a white pen to cover up the bleeding and a good scanner will actually erase those lines since it will not pick up the white-out areas. I prefer using Copic blenders since it has the brush tip which is very soft and manuverable. The blending on this is very good but its does bleed. The Prismacolor Blender is good as well but doesn't have a brush tip but since its nibs are soft and rounded, you can still work with them and they don't cause bleeding that much as compared to Copic but it does dry faster. My Chartpak Blender only comes with one nib but is also soft but it loads the paper with the MOST fluid and I only use this for BIG projects since it is very powerful and can lead to blotching.
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Whoa, thanks for the information on blenders! It's just, as far as i know, tortilla blenders, when drawing with pencil, can easily make the work awful to the viewer, and it's painful to learn the right way. Now it seems marker blenders are the best thing possible, from your reply. Thanks
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Well, there are blenders for pencils as well besides the usual tortilla blenders. Prismacolor and several other companies actually have clear wax blenders are used when you want to make color strokes more bold and blend two colors better. There are also alcohol based pencil blenders as well and I've been testing those but it seems those are basically just marker blenders but slimmer and made to work with the wax in pencils better.
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Oh my, so much yet to find out :I
I'm probably going to stick with what I already have and know, not getting these blenders
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